Pacific Language School

Title:	Pacific Language School
Category:	New Zealand
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New Zealand is situated in the South Pacific, just west of the International Date Line. It is approximately 1,600km (1,000 miles) Southeast of Australia, 9,000km (5,600 miles) from Singapore and 11,000km (6,800 miles) Southwest of San Francisco. The two major islands of New Zealand, the North and South Islands, are separated by a narrow sea channel known as the Cook Strait. The total area of the country combined is approximately 268,000km2 (105,000 sq. miles).

The coastline is long and has many beautiful beaches. Mountains cover a large part of the South Island and Central North Island. The coastline is long and has many beautiful beaches. Mountains cover a large part of the South Island and Central North Island. There are 19 peaks over 3,000m (9,800ft) above sea level, the highest being Mount Cook at 3,763m (12,346ft).

New Zealand has a wide variety of spectacular scenery in a comparatively compact area - snow capped mountains, deep lakes , some temperate rain forests, glow-worm caves, glaciers and snow fields, volcanoes and thermal geysers

The climate is temperate with sunshine average of about 2,000 hours annually. Temperature variations between seasons are generally small, except for inland South Island, where wide ranges are recorded; 32�C (90�F) in summer to -9�C (16�F) in winter.