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- There are several places in Rotorua where concerts of Maori dance and song are performed daily. Tamaki Tours operate an evening tour combining a concert and a hangi in a forest setting that offers a first-hand Maori cultural experience.
- The Chatham Islands, an isolated group of islands 850km east of Wellington, was the first to welcome the new millennium.Their local time is just 45 minutes ahead of another close contender, Gisborne, mainland New Zealand's most easterly city, and one of the closest to the International Date Line.
- One of the enduring sights in Cathedral Square is a figure dressed in black robes and a wizard's hat who makes it his business to mock both the preachers and the visitors who gather round. He holds forth at about 1pm on most days.
- The last stronghold of the black stilt, the world's rarest wading bird, is among the rivers threading through the Mackenzie Basin. Once common in New Zealand, numbers have dwindled to fewer than 100 due to loss of their breeding habitat. A captive breeding program has been established at the Black Stilt Aviary just outside the town of Twizel.
- The eggs laid by the giant royal albatross in November hatch roughly 11 weeks later, with each parent taking turns to incubate them. The chicks remain at Taiaroa until the following September when they take their first flight. Adult birds range over 2,000km of sea, returning to breed in alternate years. They have wingspans of up to 3m.
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