Despite its frequent exclusions from world maps, New Zealand is ... secret just under the surface. The islands that comprise New Zealand lie within the "Pacific Ring of Fire," a large belt of ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. For geologists, a continent is a large area of thick continental crust ...

Australia and New Zealand, hugely affect the island economies, especially on trade, and could leave the region open to further international influence especially from China. Partly as a result of ...