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Excerpt from New Zealand and Adjacent Islands
The three main islands of New Zealand lie between the parallels of latitude 34 and 47 degrees South. The extreme northern point of the North Island is in longitude 173 degrees east of Greenwich and the extreme southern point of the South Island is in longitude 169 degrees east. The width of the land is however by no means restricted to the space confined between these meridians; for the westerly portion lies in longi tude 166030' east and the easterly point in longitude 178030' east. Thus the idea of north and south elongation which is derived from a consideration of the position of the extreme north and south points is erroneous. The trend of the South Island is almost exactly north-east and south-west and the same statement is true of the greater part of the North Island. It is the north-westerly projection for 200 miles of a narrow tongue of land nowhere more than 50 miles wide that brings the northern point so near the longitude of the southern one. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
