The Geographical Setting of New Zealand and Its Place in Global Geography

摘要: New Zealand has three main islands and many smaller ones at mid-temperate latitudes, steep topography rivers, mostly flowing east or west, with hard rock gravels, lakes, all of them young most either volcanic (North Island) glacial (South Island). Early biogeographers were Charles Darwin Alfred Wallace, strong interest from local the late nineteenth century, particularly palaeontologist Fleming. The freshwater fish fauna derivations diadromous species that can disperse across oceans around coastline. advent plate tectonics profoundly influenced biogeography through last half twentieth but it is uncertain whether this had any implications for derivation fauna, a topic been highly controversial.