2017年3月10日金曜日 - 
Christopher: New Zealand
New Zealand is a country in the southwestern Pacific
Ocean, situated to the east of Australia.
It has a heterogeneous
population of some four million people. The lingua
franca is English, which is perhaps no surprise given the fact that
the country was colonised by the English
in 1840.
The island nation, which for almost a century was considered by
many to be 'a farm for Britain', has a vastly different topography depending on
where one is. The land is one of stark
contrasts indeed, and encompasses sandy
beaches, mountain ranges, farmland plains, dense
forests as well as flat land plains. The
country has four main urban centres, notably
Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin. Auckland is the biggest of the
four urban centres, boasting a population
in excess of a million people, while the
capital Wellington has a modest 500,000
people, and Christchurch and Dunedin have populations of 300,000 and 50,000, respectively.
New Zealand is well known around the world for its agricultural
exports, which include meat and dairy products (such as lamb, beef, cheese and
ice cream) and fruit (mostly apples and kiwifruit). The country is also famous
as a land of outdoor pursuits. This is
true given that outdoor activities abound in New Zealand. Visitors can enjoy
everything from fishing and hiking to bungee jumping and white water rafting!
New Zealand is really great, please come
visit someday!
Situated：位置している
Comprises：含んでいる
Heterogeneous：異成分からなる
lingua franca：共通語
colonised：植民地化されていた
vastly：非常に
topography：地形
depending on：～によって
stark：純然とした
encompasses：包括する
dense：密集した
notably：とりわけ
boasting：～を誇る
in excess of：～を上回る
modest：（量が）控えめな
respectively：それぞれ
pursuits：娯楽