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UNIT 3
Expansion 3
Exercise 2
My name is Kevin.
I am from New Zealand.
Here is some information about my country.
New Zealand is in the South Pacific Ocean
about 1,000 miles (1,600kilometers) southeast
of Australia.
New Zealand has two large islands
called North and South Islands.
The total area of my country is 103,000
square miles (268,000 square kilometers).
The capital is Wellington,
but the largest city is Auckland.
Both of these cities are on North Island.
The population of New Zealand
is about 3.8 million.
On South Island there are many mountains
while on North Island there are volcanoes.
The highest mountain in New Zealand is
Mount Cook.
It is 12,316 feet (3,754 meters ) high.
Many of the lakes in New Zealand
are in the craters of volcanoes.
New Zealand's largest lake is Lake Taupo,
which is 234 square miles
(606 square kilometers).
New Zealand's longest river
is the Waikato River.
It is 270 miles (435 kilometers) long
and runs north out of Lake Taupo
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