Portal:New Zealand/Did you know list

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Either the page is no longer relevant or consensus on its purpose has become unclear. To revive discussion, seek broader input via a forum such as the village pump.

This page is for new pieces of Did you know content from New Zealand-related articles, to add to the "Did you know?" section of the New Zealand Wikiportal. It is hoped to change a fact each week, and use this page as a source of replacement items.

Please:

...add the new item to the end of this page.
...put the date the fact was added to this list (using five tildes).
...add (NEW) if the fact is from a new article (these should receive priority).
...add (PIC) if the page linked has a suitable image to use with the fact (remember it needs to be clear enough for the small size on the portal page).

New facts for "Did you know?"

...that former New Zealand rugby union player, James Allan, is regarded as the "first" All Black by the New Zealand Rugby Union due to alphabetical order?

...that A W B Powell wrote his 500-page work New Zealand Mollusca single-handedly over 50 years?

...that All Blacks hooker Andy Dalton suffered an injury that kept him out of the 1987 Rugby World Cup, preventing him from captaining the side that went on to win the event?

...that singer Brooke Fraser is the daughter of former All Black Bernie Fraser?

...that New Zealand rugby union player Mark Hammett won four Super 12 titles with the Crusaders between 1996 and 2003 before being appointed as their assistant coach for 2007?

...that New Zealand rugby union player Billy Stead co-authored The Complete Rugby Footballer while on tour with the All Blacks?

...the New Zealand is the largest part of the sunken continent of Zealandia remaining above sea level, followed by New Caledonia? (PIC)

...that the Coenocorypha snipes (pictured alongside a Godwit) once ranged from New Caledonia and Fiji to New Zealand but are now restricted to New Zealand's outlying islands?

...that Pectinaria australis, a marine ice cream cone worm of New Zealand, builds a delicate tube home from sand grains only one grain thick?

...that the Dunedin Southern Motorway is the world's southernmost motorway? (NEW)

...that the famous film '"Lord of The Rings"' was filmed in New Zealand.

...that the Dunedin, the first commercially successful refrigerated ship, ushered in a meat and dairy boom in Australasia and South America with its first shipment in 1882? (featured on main page DYK on June 1 2007)