A1.1 How To Find NZers And Information About NZ: On The Net
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This article is from the New Zealand FAQ, by Phil Stuart-Jones and Lin Nah with numerous contributions by others.
A1.1 How To Find NZers And Information About NZ: On The Net
You may also find other URLs in the relevant sections.
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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