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Top 10s across New Zealand

Two long islands, a coastline nobody has finished exploring, and mountains that start where the suburbs stop. New Zealand is small on a map and slow to cross in practice.

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New Zealand rewards driving. Distances look modest and take longer than they should, because the road follows the coast or the valley rather than the straight line. Pick one island, or one half of one, and let the detours happen.

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New Zealand was the first self-governing country in the world to grant women the vote, in 1893.

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