Located just outside Matamata on the North Island, Hobbiton, the movie set for The Hobbit, draws some 2, 000 visitors each day.
The bird, the New Zealand storm petrel, was spotted a short distance off the country's North Island in November.
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Taupo, in the north island, is considered the world's skydiving capital, with the highest number of tandem jumps per year.
The volcano, in the North Island, sent a column of ash at least 2km (1.25 miles) into the air, scientists said.
The accident happened in the Waiohine River on New Zealand's North Island.
In the North Island, at estates such as Dry River, the winemaking team, under the auspices of Neil McCallum, create scintillating, tense Riesling.
It was just the fourth time over the past 100 years that a royal penguin has been found on the North Island of New Zealand.
While the latter now seems only to feed higher up in the forest canopy, the former two vanished from upper North Island in the late 19th century.
Partly because their star player, fly-half Quade Cooper, was born in Tokoroa in the North Island and only crossed "the ditch" to live in Queensland 10 years ago.
The 28-year-old from Wairarapa, in New Zealand's North Island, will start outside Wasps star Danny Cipriani, who is back at fly-half after his rapid recovery from a horrific ankle injury.
From the Paraparaumu Beach Golf Club on the Kapiti Coast outside of Wellington to Kauri Cliffs in the far north, the North Island is a golf mecca down under.
Maori claims have flummoxed plans of more than one developer, including Forbes 400 member Julian Robertson (see box), who had to contend with them when building his North Island luxury complexes at Kauri Cliffs and Cape Kidnappers.
They say the disappearance of two birds - the bellbird and stitchbird - from the upper North Island of the country has lead to a slow decline in common plants, including the forest shrub New Zealand gloxinia.
From Northland in the North Island, to Southland in the South, you can guarantee that New Zealanders will be showing their guests that despite a lack of imagination in naming their regions, their creativity knows no bounds when it comes to having a good time.
Gatland took his team for a training session at a local school and the squad undertook a traditional Maori experience on Hamilton's Waikato river in a bid to win some local support as Wales will play both Samoa and Fiji in the North Island city in next year's Rugby World Cup staged in New Zealand.
His conservative challenger, Edmund Stoiber, remained on holiday on a North Sea island.
In April a coalition was formed to run the north west island.
For its cheerleaders, such as Paul Krugman, an American Nobel laureate in economics, Iceland is a model for another north Atlantic island ruined by bad banks: Ireland.
The drastic move is aimed at propping up the country's frozen currency and markets, offering investors a high return for putting money back into the North Atlantic island's crippled financial system.
"Europeans are usually more concerned with quality hotel accommodations, good food and one-of-a-kind shopping, " says Chrismar Kuhn, a Basel-based luxury travel agent and fan of Sylt, a German North Sea island.
It was the first of 118 cases which spread to farms - first across the north Wales island and then onto swathes of Powys and Monmouthshire with thousands of animals having to be culled.
The find was made in a field in the north of the island in February.
Residents say the farther north on the island you go the higher the price of real estate.
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The lights were visible to most of the north of the Island low on the northern horizon.
Limited service could restart on New York's Metro North and Long Island Rail Road services on Wednesday afternoon, he added.
He will also be under pressure to reach out to Turkish Cypriots in the north of the island, our correspondent says.
More closely watched as the storm approached were the region's commuter rail lines, including Metro-North, Long Island Rail Road and NJ Transit.
In 1995, Russia's worst recorded earthquake killed 1, 989 people in the Far East oil-producing town of Neftegorsk, on the north of Sakhalin Island.
Among diplomats in Brussels, there was much exasperation over Mr Papadopoulos's blockage of attempts to allow the north of the island to trade more freely.
Months earlier he was thwarted when Moscow revoked ChevronTexaco's right to share in the production of the vast Sakhalin-3 field on the island north of Japan.
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