Photo taken in Queensland, NZ on March 18, 2010Today is the 21st of March, 2010. I'm writing this posting from an Internet Cafe in downtown Queenstown, a beautiful resort town in South West New Zealand ("NZ").
This country is just about the same size as Ecuador (270,000 square kilometers). With a population of only 4 million people, it is made mainly of two large islands in the South West Pacific and has only 4 million people. It was first inhabited by the Maori people whose origins go back to about 1000 AD. It was first sighted by the Dutch navigator Tasman who never intended to colonize it, but in 1769, the great UK navigator James Cook spotted the islands and actually landed and establish the first colony, incorporating these beautiful islands to the mighty UK. To this day, NZ is a part of the British Commonwealth of Nations.
Considered now one of the most developed countries in the world, NZ has now a GDP of approximately 120 billion dollars and an income per capita of 30,000 dollars, that is seven times as much as the income per capita of Ecuadorians. NZ has made of an open invitation to foreingn capitals one of its strongests development tools.
Visiting this country and Australia is part of a "dream come true" for me.
This country is just about the same size as Ecuador (270,000 square kilometers). With a population of only 4 million people, it is made mainly of two large islands in the South West Pacific and has only 4 million people. It was first inhabited by the Maori people whose origins go back to about 1000 AD. It was first sighted by the Dutch navigator Tasman who never intended to colonize it, but in 1769, the great UK navigator James Cook spotted the islands and actually landed and establish the first colony, incorporating these beautiful islands to the mighty UK. To this day, NZ is a part of the British Commonwealth of Nations.
Considered now one of the most developed countries in the world, NZ has now a GDP of approximately 120 billion dollars and an income per capita of 30,000 dollars, that is seven times as much as the income per capita of Ecuadorians. NZ has made of an open invitation to foreingn capitals one of its strongests development tools.
Visiting this country and Australia is part of a "dream come true" for me.
Nice photo and history lesson. It's interesting and kind of sad to me that it's roughly the same size of Ecuador (and with far less people) and yet our poor country is so behind in terms of GDP.
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