Why Is New Zealand So Often Left Off World Maps?

Re:Why Is New Zealand So Often Left Off World Maps? by iamaelephant on Thursday May 24, 2018 @07:17PM (#17149355)

Please stop calling our country Middle Earth.

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Re:Why Is New Zealand So Often Left Off World Maps? by cc439 on Thursday May 24, 2018 @08:57PM (#17149822)

It's amazing how one, admittedly enormous, place in pop-culture history can define an entire country in the mind's of a majority of the first world's population. I imagine you feel the same way as people from Alabama and/or the Louisiana coast feel about Forrest Gump references.

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Re:Why Is New Zealand So Often Left Off World Maps? by jonny_eh on Thursday May 24, 2018 @08:08PM (#17149596)

Then stop making Hobbit movies there.

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Re:Why Is New Zealand So Often Left Off World Maps? by Apocryphon on Thursday May 24, 2018 @07:44PM (#17149484)

Australia is called Oz, the Antipodes must be a realm of wonders.

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Re:Why Is New Zealand So Often Left Off World Maps? by Izkata on Thursday May 24, 2018 @08:49PM (#17149791)

Don't worry, I know it best as Xena's homeland.

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Re:Why Is New Zealand So Often Left Off World Maps? by basementcat on Thursday May 24, 2018 @10:01PM (#17150075)

I imagine NZ is full of vampires and werewolves.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_We_Do_in_the_Shadows

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Re:Why Is New Zealand So Often Left Off World Maps? by maybelater on Thursday May 24, 2018 @07:33PM (#17149432)

I think we have our own marketing department to blame for that...

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