Newfoundlander Reacts to New Zealand | Stunning Scenery & Famous Faces

[@discoveringnlwithkevin]

Hey everyone, I wanted to take a moment to highlight an important cause. Trish, a State MP in the Blue Mountains of Australia, is fundraising for the Royal Flying Doctor Service. This incredible organization provides life-saving care to remote and rural communities, where immediate access to medical help is often out of reach. Trish is taking on a month-long fitness challenge to support the RFDS and keep their vital services running. Every year, the RFDS helps over 330,000 Australians, with emergency retrievals and healthcare, reaching someone every two minutes. If you're able, please consider donating to this life-saving cause. Together, we can help keep the Flying Doctor flying! www.oceanstooutback.org.au/fundraisers/trishdoyle/oceans-to-outback?ref=ch_3Q8LHZLYiDsksgE11QxSBIRj

[@JacksonDean-nx9yo]

I feel NZ has produced some amazing Motorsport people also. Burt Munro (Worlds fastest Indian), Bruce McLaren (McLaren F1) ,Denny Hulme (F1), Chris Amon (F1), Scott Dixon (Indycar), Scott McLachlan (V8 Supercars, Indycar), Shane Van Gisbergen (V8 Supercars, NASCAR), Jim Richards (Bathurst legend), Greg Murphy (Bathurst legend, Lap of the gods) to name but a few.

[@RO-vh8ln]

And somewhere between Burt and Denny were Ronnie Moore, Ivan Mauger and Barry Brigs. All three were speedway riders, were world champions competing at around the same time late 50's through 1970 and all were born in Christchurch.

[@lindascott6902]

John Britten (motorcycle), Liam Lawson (F1)

[@RO-vh8ln]

You have to watch the Taika Waititi movie Jojo Rabbit, the stared in and directed the movie and it's serious, funny, dark, frivolous and heartbreaking, but has a ........ ending. One my favourite names missing from this list is Jon Hamilton, the inventor of the modern jet boat.

[@scottday8454]

As an Aussie I can say a couple of great movies with Temuera Morrison were 'Once were Warriors' & 'What Becomes of the Broken-hearted'. I will never forget Russell Crowe's Oscar acceptance speach for Gladiator! (2001 I was in NZ after my eldest brother died). "May God save the Queen, may God bless America and may God defend NZ... But, Thank F*ck for Australia!" It put a lot of Kiwi noses out of joint at the time.😅

[@discoveringnlwithkevin]

@@scottday8454 ha ha ha

[@optimusmaximus9646]

Noses out of joint? Maybe, but Russel Crowe is bright, articulate and speaks form the heart. Australia has been good to him and he understands geopolitics and the importance of Australia's role in keeping the peace in the Asia Pacific region. In any case, there is little love lost between Australia and New Zealand because our two countries ANZAC ties go back a long way and these sorts of things are forgotten very quickly.

[@scottday8454]

@@discoveringnlwithkevin in the video they referenced the major islands of NZ... There is actually 3x Major Islands of NZ. The North Island, the South Island and to the NW is the Main Land.... Australia! 😁🤣🍺🍻

[@discoveringnlwithkevin]

@@scottday8454 ha ha ha

[@scottday8454]

@@optimusmaximus9646 but, the Kiwis never forget the one incident of the Greg & Trevor Chappell brain fart 😁

[@wildeturkey2006]

As a Kiwi living in Australia for the past 34 years, it;s always lovely looking back at my home land and how pretty she is!

[@lindascott6902]

Forgot to mention that all Kiwi women were able to vote from 1893, making Aotearoa NZ the first true democracy. Also Richard Pearse, the first in powered flight, 18 months before the Wright Brothers. Keith Urban is a famous Kiwi country singer

[@Wolty-s9n]

I'm (Aussie) in NZ, North Island (Corromandel and Roto) right now. First time since 2019 (South Island, Wanaka and QTown). It's 3 hours from Brissy, wtf have we not visited more often? Having the best time here.

[@wayback479]

Hi Kev. I’ve been to both countries , Canada and NZ are both very beautiful countries and very similar in a lot of ways with the landscape . Only NZ is a lot smaller . When you come to Australia definitely drop into NZ . It’s about a 4 hour flight from Melbourne or Sydney 😊

[@gbltheolechurch5acrehomestead]

It’s Spring in New Zealand right now….beautiful place!

[@urizen7613]

A Kiwi soldier, Charles Upham, was the only man to get the Victoria Cross twice and survive.

[@Peter-ny4mu]

And you can not forget Keith Park. Such a good WW2 RNZAF pilot England has a statue of him in Trafalgar Square.

[@urizen7613]

@@Peter-ny4mu He deserved far more recognition than he got!

[@philllynch3265]

HI Kevin. I was surprised he did not mention that Peter Jackson who did the remastering of the Beatles movies Get Back & Let it Be , They were amazing.

[@discoveringnlwithkevin]

@@philllynch3265 they were! I never knew he was from NZ! Thank you.

[@MsHGH1]

If you’re interested in cricket I’d recommend looking at the one day game, played in colourful uniforms, rather than test cricket which runs over several days and traditionally played in whites. The basics are the same in both, but the one day game is faster and easier to follow, whereas tests will bore most newbies rigid!

[@Fiona-zc6oz]

My Aussie family lived in Wellington, NSW for 2 years in the 70s. Loved school and my friends but soooo wet, cold and windy for many days. We had earthquake evacuation practices at school and a big flat area on the hill to go to. Sadly, I never got back but it is beautiful. I can still do the accent though!

[@jeremyNomad]

New Zealand....it's so far away from the rest of the world we get bored and have to invent fun 'activities' that can kill you. We love to live to the fullest. And we have every geographical feature in a country that's only 2200km/1400mls long. And only 5 million people.

[@discoveringnlwithkevin]

@@jeremyNomad awesome!

[@therese4963]

NZ is beautiful. A lot of its landscape is similar to the UK. We're heading back over for another NZ holiday in the coming months. Kiwi's sometimes refer to Aussie's as their cousins from across the ditch, referrencing the water between the two countries.

[@Ngatikahu-aka-panbadass]

cool video bro , salute from New Zealand , NZ rugby 7s player Te paea Cook Savage has ancestry from Massechussets and Nova Scotia , also Maui was a real person not a myth , he was recorded to have visited the great library of Alexandria and was the first navigator to be able to measure the distance across Oceans around 2000 years ago a blueprint of the device used was found in a Papua new guinea cave , we also have a connection to the Haiida of Haiida Gwaii British Columbia from 2000 years ago

[@brucelamberton8819]

Geographically, the three major cities of Auckland, Christchurch and Wellington (which didn't get much of a mention) are very different. Auckland is built within the cones of something like 27 volcanoes including Rangitoto Island to the east. Not all are extinct and "the big one" (eruption) is considered overdue. Wellington, on the southern tip of the North Island, is built upon reclaimed land between steep hills that rise from the harbour, and has a major faultline running through the city. To the east is the Hutt Valley, a rift valley which is part of the fault network. Another fault lies just to the south in the Cook Strait, and as a result, the city experiences frequent earth tremors of varying magnitudes, and will most are between magnitudes 2 and 4, stronger quakes above magnitude 5 occur every few years, and there have been a couple over magnitude 7 in the last century or so (I believe the country's strongest earthquake in its modern history was magnitude 8.2 in the late 19th century). The South Island is very different - and more mountainous - than the North as it was formed by geologic uplift from the collision of the tectonic plates. As for Chritchurch, although most of the countries volcanoes are in the North Island, it is built on the northern shore of the Banks Peninsula which comprises the caldera of two extinct volcanoes, and alluvial plains extending westward to the Southern Alps. The reason why the 2011 earthquake was so devasting to Christchurch despite it being only of relatively moderate magnitude was there had been a stronger quake a few months beforehand just to the south of the city which weakened the foundations of many buildings, plus the subsequent quake in February was very "shallow" i.e. the epicentre was very close to the surface; this results in less energy being dissipated than in a deeper quake, which is what caused the alluvial soil to undergo liquefaction - basically, the ground melted and the city sank.

[@doug-Hakura]

re your question on Auckland and earthquakes, most earthquakes occur along the east coast of the north is and throughout the South is. see the earthquake map in the 1st 1/3 of video.

[@trevorkrause7220]

"Liquidifaction" occurs during strong earthquakes where the soil, and underlying geology is temporarily affected by the vibrations moving through the land and the soil starts to act more like a liquid than a solid which usualy means that the foundations of man-made structures like buildings, roads, railways and bridges are no longer on solid bases and start to sink, warp and distort as the ground cannot properly support the structures mass while the earthquakes are occurring. In extreme cases like the Christchurch earthquakes this meant that entire city blocks, streets of suburban housing and many road and transport corridors had to be completely demolished and cleared before rebuiding could even begin again. Apparently it was found or deduced after the event that the particular geology of the area around Christchurch made that city particularly prone to liquidfaction in the event of a major earthquake, and this was not particularly well known by the public or that the official buiding codes acknowledged this or insisted on appropriate measures to help mitigate the effects of such natural disasters.

[@discoveringnlwithkevin]

@@trevorkrause7220 wow!

[@smithwayne2866]

Auckland is built on a volcanic plateau (over 50 - last one formed about 600 years ago), so the volcanic rock makes earthquakes less of a problem, compared to the earthquake fault that runs through the rest of the country. But yes, we built our largest city on an active volcanic plateau Lake Taupo is about 30 Kms by 40 Kms in size, by that we mean the single eruption cone /area which potential super volcanic eruption occurs - it is still an active volcano. Fortunately, it is two gigantic storage areas that in theory take over million years to fill up (Last super eruption 27,000 years ago). Negatively, since humans have been only here 700 - 800 years, we don't know what a mild eruption means Also because each side of the islands are different tectonic plates shifting in opposite directions (North and South - the whole plate could move along 600kms fault line in up to 20 foot jumps), also up out of the sea (West coast) and down into the sea (East coast). If we ever have a major tectonic shift (in theory occurs about every 350 years), the damage may be significant. Again only one has ever occurred with human occupation, so impact is not recorded yet

[@gbltheolechurch5acrehomestead]

Like 113 For You Kevin from Mr. Garry! Found you on Brother Mark Royals channel!

[@discoveringnlwithkevin]

@@gbltheolechurch5acrehomestead Mark Royle is one of my absolute favorite KZbinrs! I love his videos!

[@brucelamberton8819]

After famous Kiwi was the British-born but NZ-raised General Sir Bernard Freyberg, who played a significant role in WW2 and was unfairly blamed by some British for the Fall of Crete.

[@johnallsopp6324]

The South Island is far less populated due to the inaccessibility of its Southern Alps and a lack of arable land compared to the North Island. To understand the South Island rain shadow, think Vancouver and the Rockies - Vancouver is rainy due to the prevailing weather dropping its moisture load as it rises to get over the Rockies. This means the Eastern side of the Rockies is much dryer. Cheers.

[@Ngatikahu-aka-panbadass]

latest movies filmed here are Minecraft , the wrecking crew with Batista and Mamoa and a new lord of the rings is being filmed

[@optimusmaximus9646]

New Zealand is spectactularly beautiful but a lot of New Zealanders - 15% of the population, in fact - have moved to Australia for work and other opportunities.

[@Shenzenxo]

Yup a lot of New Zealanders have moved across the ditch, more then 600,000 now!!

[@Ngatikahu-aka-panbadass]

Neil Finn is from Crowded house , Korgs accent and mannerisms is of a typical maori , if your gonna check out NZ music , must see's are Stan Walker , L.A.B and six60 , some other things to check out is the Maori Battalion , Tame iti ted talk , Koos Wabeke ted talk Parihaka the first display of non violent passive protest a movement followed and adopted by Ghandi and NZ leading the way for indigenous rights and Womens rights

[@TED1980]

No New Zealand is New Zealand …..No change to our name ! The last 170 plus years it has been New Zealand. Europeans and Māori alike both fought for this in 2 world wars!!! Both fought for the continuation of free people the world over and the country of New Zealand!🇳🇿

[@TED1980]

The previous government wanted to change every location from its Anglo name to a Māori name. I am against that, I want every British named place remain, equally I want every Māori named place to remain. The mix is what makes us !

[@gerardmorris4441]

The first Polynesians to settle here had no sense of country and therefore no name for the collection of islands. Transliteration was required to create a ‘Maori’ name. This is Niu Tirini.

[@allanmowz]

Might I please suggest you turn off the audio ducking? The bit where it lowers the volume of the video when your mic is activated. Asking because often this means we can't hear what is being said in the video as you talk over it, and it's kind of distracting. Would much rather a brief pause so we can listen to both you and the video properly. It's a reaction video - you're supposed to be allowed to pause and react. It's expected. Also, hi from New Zealand :)

[@discoveringnlwithkevin]

I normally would but I was concerned this video was a bit long and didn't want to pause much in fear of my video being too long...

[@AdrianDaley-sn9tt]

Funny thing about anything from NZ. if it's good, we call it Australian. hahahah. Much better place to visit then Australia. Not so hot. It's an Island full of Mike Tysons.oh, and the fishing is of tap