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Wellington [b] is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the third-largest city in New Zealand (second largest in the North Island), [c] and is the administrative centre of the Wellington Region.
Wellington has been the capital of New Zealand since 1865. New Zealand 's first capital city was Old Russell ( Okiato ) in 1840–41. Auckland was the second capital from 1841 until 1865, when Parliament was permanently moved to Wellington after an argument that persisted for a decade.
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New Zealand has competitive international teams in rugby union, rugby league, netball, cricket, softball, and sailing. New Zealand participated at the Summer Olympics in 1908 and 1912 as a joint team with Australia, before first participating on its own in 1920. [436] The country has ranked highly on a medals-to-population ratio at recent Games.
New Zealand is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui) and the South Island (Te Waipounamu)—and over 600 smaller islands.
The embassy is located at 103 rue de Grenelle in Paris, France's capital city. New Zealand has maintained a resident ambassador in France since 1957, and a resident Head of Mission since 1949. The ambassador to France is concurrently accredited to Portugal, Senegal and the OECD.
The French were among the earlier European settlers in New Zealand, and established a colony at Akaroa in the South Island. [ 2 ] Captain Jean-François-Marie de Surville is the first known Frenchman to have visited New Zealand, [ 3 ] in 1769, and by the 1830s, French whalers were operating off the Banks Peninsula .
The region was settled by Europeans in 1839 by the New Zealand Company. Wellington became the capital of Wellington Province upon the creation of the province in 1853, until the Abolition of the Provinces Act came into force on 1 Nov 1876. [10] Wellington became capital of New Zealand in 1865, the third capital after Russell and Auckland.