Word: zealander
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...that Binds. Britain's biggest stumbling block on the road to the Common Market is the Commonwealth. Hard est hit by any change in the status quo would be New Zealand, virtually Britain's farm, which in recent years has shipped as much as 92% of its exports of butter, cheese, meat and wool to Britain. Australia and Canada are also worried, but less so, since they are less dependent on purely agricultural exports. India, Malaya, Pakistan and the Commonwealth partners in Africa are, in fact, plugging for the Common Market as a great new arena in which...
Since its beginning in 1954, the group has toured the United States, Canada, Europe, New Zealand, and Australia. The members are Marc Gottlieb, violin; Vladmir Weissman, violin; William Soheon, viola; and Irving Klein, cello...
Nearly 5,000 miles from familiar forests, the traveling New Zealand naturalists were delighted to find that they might well have been tramping their own woodlands. There in the rain forests of southern Chile were vast stands of beech, remarkably similar to the trees of their native land. The damp Chilean glades were greenly upholstered with ferns and mosses almost exactly like those that grow in Australasia. Even swarming insects looked the same as the insects of home. How did delicate plant and insect life ever make the difficult migration across great southern oceans or the hostile icecap of Antarctica...
...higher plants or insects, but fossil evidence shows that 10 million years ago, it had a temperate climate and was covered with forests characteristic of the modern South Temperate Zone. Plants and insects capable of crossing moderate water gaps could have used Antarctica as a bridge between New Zealand and Australia on one side and South America on the other. Some of the flora and fauna may even have evolved in pleasant Antarctic valleys that are now covered by two miles...
Some plants common to both sides of the South Temperate Zone are apparently incapable of crossing even modest water gaps, but if they were in existence 150 million years ago, they probably did not need to. Holdgate points out that in those days, Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica and South America were probably jammed close together. The primitive plants that grew on outlying parts of this great ancient land had only to last out the seasons while the continents drifted northward and moved them and their home thousands of miles apart...