World Maps Without New Zealand

As a Kiwi, and as other Kiwis will attest — it goes without saying — we get excited when we hear or notice anything New Zealand related on the telly or in a movie. Not sure why that is exactly, but we do. So naturally, the same thing happens when New Zealand isn’t mentioned, or rather, excluded from things we believe it shouldn’t be excluded from. Case in point — ‘World’ Maps without NZ:

The article mentions the unusual and interesting Chatham Standard Time Zone but doesn’t think the country it belongs to is important enough to be shown.

Worried about shale gas and fracking? Don’t be. It won’t happen in New Zealand:

Bees of New Zealand, sorry guys, you’re on your own.

Way back in 2006 we went to Swarovski Crystal World in Wattens, Austria and we saw this pretty weak approximation. It’s like after the artist finished labouring over the accuracy of Australia he was sick of the fucking thing so he just slapped a few crystals down and said “ehh, close enough.” ~ user submitted