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The soc.culture.new-zealand FAQ (part 1 of 6)
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Looking for people:
Online phone directory         http://www.whitepages.co.nz/
NZ Internet Users directory    http://bitz.co.nz/bitz/email/

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For general information, follow this newsgroup!  You might also want to
investigate the nz.* groups (if they are available to you) particularly
nz.general.  Readers with web browsers might like to do a search on the
'keyword' "New Zealand".  There seem to be quite a few travel resources
there.  Corrections for any of these addresses would be appreciated.

The faq is available from numerous sites, including:

 ftp site:  ftp.demon.co.uk
      dir:  /pub/ibmpc/misc
including the internet access faq and immigration eligibility software.

Searching for organisations, companies, governmental agencies etc

*  NZ Yellow Pages     http://www.yellowpages.co.nz
*  The NZ Internet Registry (information on Domains within the *.nz TLD)
      http://www.domainz.net.nz/
*  NZ Government Online (with search facility)  http://www.govt.nz/
*  Consulates/Embassies Overseas  http://www.mft.govt.nz/Overseas/index.htm
*  The Companies Office  http://www.companies.govt.nz/
*  Education Links  http://nz.com/NZ/EducationResearch/Universities.html 
*  Employment Resources  http://url.co.nz/employ.html


New Zealand Search engines 
    A list of major NZ search engines and indexes by Paul Bourke
        http://www.mhri.edu.au/~pdb/internet/nzsearch.html

    Other NZ search engines not included in the list are:
        http://www.nzpages.co.nz/
        http://www.anzwers.co.nz/

List of New Zealand Internet connected sites by Mark Davis of Victoria
University of Wellington
    http://www.comp.vuw.ac.nz/~mark/netsites.html


Other info about NZ is available via WWW from:

Michael Witbrock's NZ pages at http://www.nz.com/

Sam Sampson says:
"Stewart Island Pages on the akiko tour of nz.  Site is:
  http://nz.com/tour/Stewart Island/

Philip Greenspun's file (illustrated with 25 JPEG photos):
 http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/philg/travel/
 then click on "email from New Zealand" and all the old stuff is there.

Jennifer Mary George's pages:
Obscurities/infrequently asked questions;
 http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~jmgeorge/ifaq.html
and home page
 http://www-leland.stanford.edu/~jmgeorge/nz.html

Pat Cain's ftp site/web page:
 http://www.dosli.govt.nz/lists
 ftp://ftp.dosli.govt.nz/pub/
including the Internet Access in NZ FAQ, Tony Sutorius' NZ Internet 
Typical User Profiles FAQ and BBS Listings for Auckland, Waikato, 
Manawatu, Wellington and Christchurch.

David Lobb's site       http://www.tricky.com/davelobb.html
Jon Clarke's site       http://air.com.hk/~jonc
Derek Tearne's site     http://url.co.nz/NZ/nzl.html

NZ Legislation          http://www.knowledge-basket.co.nz/gpprint/acts.html
Health Links            http://www.lincoln.ac.nz/libr/nz/nzmed.htm

Government web pages
NZ Government Online    http://www.govt.nz/
NZ Companies Office     http://www.companies.govt.nz/
NZ Statistics           http://www.stats.govt.nz/statsweb.nsf
NZ Passport Office      
http://inform.dia.govt.nz/internal_affairs/businesses/doni_pro/pports_home.html
Dept of Internal Affairs Information and Services
                 http://202.49.212.149/internal_affairs/helping.frml


Local Government Web pages
Auckland City Council             http://www.akcity.govt.nz/
Canterbury City Council           http://www.ccc.govt.nz/
Dunedin City Council              http://www.dcc.govt.nz/
North Shore City Council          http://www.nscc.govt.nz/
Palmerston North City Council     http://www.pncc.govt.nz/
Waitakere City Council            http://www.waitakere.govt.nz/
Wellington City Council           http://www.wcc.govt.nz/

Museums
 Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa    http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/ 
 Museums of New Zealand (an article with links)  
          http://gosouthpacific.miningco.com/library/weekly/aa011198.htm
 NZ Fighter Pilots Museum         http://www.nzfpm.co.nz/welcome/welcome.htm


Library sites throughout NZ.

National Library of New Zealand    http://www.natlib.govt.nz/    
 Email: visitors@natlib.govt.nz

New Zealand Library Catalogues:
 http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/libr/nzopac.htm

New Zealand Library and Information Association:
 http://www.netlink.co.nz/~nzlia/
which gives details of the organisation, and links to related sites.

Canterbury Public Library  http://www.ccc.govt.nz/Library/
Wellington City Libraries  http://www.wcl.govt.nz

University Libraries:
 University of Auckland    http://www.auckland.ac.nz/lbr/libhome.htm
 University of Waikato     http://www2.waikato.ac.nz/library/
 Massey University         http://www.massey.ac.nz/~wwwlib/
 Victoria University of Wellington   http://www.vuw.ac.nz/library/
 University of Canterbury  http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/libr/home.htm
 University of Otago       http://librius.otago.ac.nz:800/home-page.html
 Lincoln University 
     http://www.lincoln.ac.nz/libr/libhome.htm
     http://www.lincoln.ac.nz/libr/nz/
     and their alphabetical list of NZ WWW Home Pages at:
     http://www.lincoln.ac.nz/libr/nz/nzalpha.htm

Library servers on the web:
 http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Libweb/
 http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/staff/morgan/alcuin/wwwed-catalogs.html

Arts
 NZ Arts on the Web     http://url.co.nz/arts/nzarts.html
 NZ Art Resources       http://www.elam.auckland.ac.nz/links/galleries.html
 NZ Symphony Orchestra  http://www.nzso.co.nz/
 NZ Music Centre        http://www.sounz.org.nz/
 Aotearoa Traditional Maori Performing Arts Festival
                     http://www.maori.org.nz/kapahaka/ampac/index.html

 For URLs on NZ music and Film, look at Sections "C5.2  Music" and  
 "C5.1.1  Films"


Radio Broadcasts from NZ
    Note:  You'll need the Real Player plug-in in most cases.  
    Go to http://www.realaudio.com/ to find out more about it.

  Audionet                            http://www.audionet.co.nz
    List of links to various broadcasts including sports and radio.
    Click on the "Audio" or "Live" button.  The radio stations are
    mostly Wellington radio stations. eg. MoreFM, Newtalk1ZB, 91ZM FM. 

  BFM (Student radio - Auckland)   
    BFM Home page (for programme)    http://www.95bfm.co.nz/
    BFM Live                         http://www.ihug.co.nz/bFM.ram
  Radio New Zealand                    http://www.rnz.co.nz/
  Radio Active           http://www.radioactive.co.nz



Sport
 Americas Cup 2000      http://www.americascup.co.nz/
 Cricket                http://www.cricket.org/
 Links to NZ Sports     http://www.plug.co.nz:80/sport.htm
 NZ Sports Foundation   http://www.sportsfoundation.org.nz/
 Rugby (NZRFU)          http://www.nzrugby.co.nz/
 Sports Beat            http://www.sportsbeat.co.nz/
 Sports Web             http://www.sports.graben.co.nz/

Skiing in NZ 
 Cadrona                http://www.cardrona.co.nz 
 HMH Heli-skiing        http://www.new-zealand.com/hmh
 Mt Cook Line           http://www.mtcook.co.nz/
 Treble Cone            http://www.new-zealand.com/TrebleCone
 Whakapapa ski fields   http://www.whakapapa.co.nz/

Transport
 NZ by Rail             http://www.waikato.ac.nz/nz/rail/
 Intercity Coach        http://www2.intercitycoach.co.nz/intercity/
 Interislander Ferry    http://www.waikato.ac.nz/nz/rail/interislander.html
 Automobile Association http://www.aa.org.nz/
 Mt Cook Line           http://www.mtcook.co.nz/

Travel and Tourism related web pages:
 NZ on the Web          http://www.nz.com/
 Destination NZ         http://url.co.nz/nzl.html
 NZ Tourism Bureau      http://www.nztb.govt.nz/visitor/
 NZ Travel Channel      http://www.nz-travel.co.nz/  
                        http://www.nz-travel.com/
 Lonely Planet          http://www.lonelyplanet.com/dest/aust/nz.htm
 Auckland Airport       http://www.auckland-airport.co.nz/
 Waiheke Island         http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~waiheke
 Rotorua                http://www.rotorua.com/
                        http://nz.com/Rotorua/index.htm
 Hawke's Bay Online     http://www.hb.co.nz/       
 Waitomo                http://www3.waikato.ac.nz/waitomo/index.html
 Tourism Taranaki       http://tipnet.taranaki.ac.nz/tourism/
 Destination Taupo      http://www.laketaupo.tourism.co.nz/
 Wellington Interactive Tours  http://www.wcc.govt.nz/~Virtually.NZ/
                        http://www.wellington.net.nz/discwell/virtual/
 Wellington WWW         http://www.wellington.net.nz/
 Nelson Guide           http://nelson.net.nz/
 Wanaka                 http://www.voyager.co.nz/~wanaka/index01.htm
 Antarctica - Tourism   http://www.icair.iac.org.nz/tourism/


 Millenium           
 Govt Millenium page    http://www.year2000.govt.nz
 Gisborne Events2000    http://gisborne2000.org.nz/


Other sites:
 NZ Stamp Centre (by NZ Post)         http://www.nzstamps.co.nz/
 Footrot Flats newsgroup              news:alt.comics.strips.footrot-flats
 Radio NewZealand International       http://www.actrix.gen.nz/biz/rnzi 
 Royal Society of NZ (NZ Science)     http://www.rsnz.govt.nz/
 Institute of Professional Engineers  http://www.ipenz.org.nz/
 NZ Architectural Links 
        http://www.architecture.auckland.ac.nz/info/archsearch.htm
 http://charm.wcc.govt.nz/extern/kennett/homepage.htm
 http://liber.stanford.edu/~torrie/
 http://archpropplan.auckland.ac.nz/internal/lab/search/nz.htm
 Pukeiti  http://Vulcan.taranaki.ac.nz/pukeiti/
 Kiwi Wildlife tours    http://www.kiwi-wildlife.co.nz/ 
 http://www.indirect.com/www/richardk/NZgraphic.html
 http://www.rsnz.govt.nz/
 NZ Thoroughbread Network  http://www.horse.co.nz/
 Gateway to Antarctica  http://www.icair.iac.org.nz/ 
 US Naval Antarctic Support unit  http://www.iac.org.nz/nasu/default.htm

Information on the Rainbow Warrior 
 The Memorial            http://www.northland.ac.nz/matauri/rainbow.htm
 The Bombing of the Warrior
    http://www.kauai.net/centralscrutinizer/pardonmyanalysis/rainbow_bomb.html  
  Greenpeace             http://www.greenpeace.org/


A list of newspaper sites is at the end of section 1.2.2.

The Wizard of New Zealand (also known as the Wizard of Christchurch) is
pleased to announce his home page  http://www.chch.planet.org.nz/wizard/


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