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D. Iceland, Japan and Norway are the only nations to allow commercial whaling. The United States allows some indigenous people in Alaska to hunt whales only for survival. And, in the North Atlantic’s Faeroe Islands, whales are hunted annually for meat, which is shared by the community.
A. The New Zealand archipelago – a collection of islands – was the last large habitable landmass to be settled by humans. Between about 1280 and 1350, Polynesians began to settle in the islands and then developed a distinctive Maori culture.
B. There are 15 Commonwealth realms, sovereign states in the Commonwealth of Nations, which share the British monarch as head of state. The Commonwealth has 56 member states, mostly former territories of the British Empire. With the death of Queen Elizabeth II, some of the 15 realms are expected to drop allegiance to the monarch and become republics.
C. About the size of a chicken, kiwis are flightless birds found only in New Zealand. Kiwifruit, a berry native to China, was named after the kiwi bird because of its fuzzy skin.