Portal:New Zealand/Did you know/8
...that New Zealand's first long-distance telephone service was between Dunedin and Milton?
...that Rangitata Island is the only place that State Highway 1 leaves New Zealand's two main islands?
...that Otago Girls' High School claims to be the oldest girls' high school in the Southern hemisphere?
...that the line "Quardle oodle ardle wardle doodle" from Denis Glover's poem The Magpies is one of the most famous lines in New Zealand poetry?