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Image: Mt. Ama Dablam- Sagarmatha National Park (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mt._Ama_Dablam-_Sagarmatha_National_Park.jpg) by Sangyam adventurer on Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en). Image cropped.

Himalayas

The Himalayas are a mountain range in Asia. It has many of Earth's highest peaks, including the highest, the summit of Mount Everest. The mountain range pass...

Entry last updated: 10/07/25

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Health and wellbeing (hauora)

Health and wellbeing are important aspects in our life. Hauora is a Māori view of health unique to New Zealand, and covers the physical, mental, social and s...

Entry last updated: 14/04/26

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Adaptation

Adaptation is an evolutionary process where a plant or an animal becomes suited to living in a particular habitat. These are changes that take place over man...

Entry last updated: 16/01/25

Fair trade

Fair trade is an international movement that aims to reduce poverty by working for better trading conditions between developing countries and the developed w...

Entry last updated: 11/11/24

Image: 2022-06-02 England vs New Zealand at Lord's 23 (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2022-06-02_England_vs_New_Zealand_at_Lord%27s_23.jpg) by ChodHound on Wikimedia Commons. CC by 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en). Image cropped.

Cricket

Cricket was an important summer sport in Britain, as far back as the 13th century. The British then introduced this game to the colonies. Cricket is popular ...

Entry last updated: 23/10/25

Image: Glass Plate Negative: Kate W. Sheppard (https://collection.canterburymuseum.com/objects/243177/glass-plate-negative-kate-w-sheppard) by Henry Herbert Clifford. Collection: Canterbury Museum. Ref: S62/1/2. Image cropped.

Kate Sheppard (1847–1934)

Kate Sheppard was born in England on 10 March 1847. She and her family moved to New Zealand in the late 1860s. Kate was a founding member of the Women's Chri...

Entry last updated: 30/09/25

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Famous people (New Zealand)

Famous New Zealanders come from all walks of life like sport, politics, the arts, science and technology. They are famous because their achievements make the...

Entry last updated: 11/09/25

Image: WW1 soldier Allan McMillan writing at a desk at Oatlands Park, Surrey, England (http://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/Object/900353) by [unknown]. Collection: Te Papa. Ref: O.031467. No known copyright. Image cropped.

World War One (primary sources)

People who lived during World War One and soon after left behind lots of diaries, photos, letters, manuscripts, and other such documents that recorded event...

Entry last updated: 14/04/26

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Native plants (New Zealand)

Native plants are plants that are indigenous to or originate from a specific country. New Zealand has a wide variety of native plants which are unique as the...

Entry last updated: 14/04/26