Today's Geo Quiz gets started in the Pacific.
The island nation we want you to name today is really two islands. The North Island and the South Island. That's it.
Okay, there are plenty of smaller islands scattered around the two main landmasses...but they're just specks on the map. This country is a long way from anywhere else.
Its closest neighbors to the north are New Caledonia, Fiji and Tonga. The continent of Australia is more than 12-hundred miles away...a good long swim across the Tasman Sea.
The British took control of the islands in 1840 and signed a treaty with the indigenous Maori people. But it was a flawed deal that's still generating controversies.
Recently this country's government tried to make amends .... including granting the Maori legal rights to a well-known war chant.
So can you name the island nation that's split in two by the Cook Strait?
