Portal:New Zealand/Did you know/13

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...that fighting chief Hongi Hika also helped write the first Maori-English dictionary?

...that New Zealander Geoff Fisken was the highest scoring Commonwealth ace against the Japanese, or that his Curtiss P-40 Wairarapa Wildcat is being restored?

...that New Zealand has a greater density of liverworts than any other country, due to its cool, wet and temperate climate?

...that Samuel Marsden is believed to have introduced sheep to New Zealand?