Portal:New Zealand/Did you know/1

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...that Hokey pokey is New Zealand's second most popular ice cream flavour, after vanilla?

...that the settlement of Te Wairoa was buried by a volcanic eruption in 1886, and that its ruins are now a tourist attraction?

...that the grounds of NZ Prime Minister's official residence, Premier House, had what were probably the country's first tennis courts?

...that the North Island's northernmost and westernmost points are only 30 kilometres from each other?