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Sunday, August 15, 2010

Map Work for Week 5, Term 3

Ok choose a country that of your ancestors came from. Write and interesting fact about it. You might want to list all the countries your ancestors have come from.

Find three towns or cities in New Zealand that start with the letter 'E'. List them all here and write an interesting fact about one of them.

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  1. nz map work
    eastbouren
    edgecumbe
    ettrick
    edgecumbe is named after edgecumbe in cornwell.

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    ireland.

    one cure for a hangover in ireland is to buried up to the neck in moist river sand.

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  3. My World Map work

    *Some of my ancestors come from Fance.
    *Capital of France is Paris.
    *The prime minister of France is Nicolas Sarkozy.

    New Zealand Map Work

    Eastbourne, Edendale, Ettrick.
    Eastbourne-It is near the shore of Wellington.
    It is a good location for windsurfing and kitesurfing as it is very windy there..!

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    On The Border Of Wales
    -The national game of Wales is rugby
    -Wales doesn't have it's own armed forces or currencey.

    New Zealand Map Work:
    Eastbourne
    Eltham
    Ettrick

    -Ettrick was one of the first places in New Zealand to grow apples.
    -Ettrick was founded by Scottish setttlers

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  5. New Zealand Map Work.

    3 places:
    *Eastbourne
    *Eketahuna
    *Ettrick

    Facts about Eketahuna:
    *The name means "to run aground on a sandbank".
    *This place was once named Mellemskov.

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    Derry, Ireland

    Facts:
    *Derry means "oak-wood of Colm Cille."
    *This place used to be named "Londonderry."

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  6. world map work Ireland An odd Irish birthday tradition is to lift the birthday child upside down and give his head a few gentle bumps on the floor for good luck. The number of bumps should allegedly correspond to the child’s age plus one.Couples in Ireland could marry legally on St. Brigid's Day (February 1st) in Teltown, County Meath, as recently as the 1920’s by simply walking towards each other. If the marriage failed, they could "divorce'" by walking away from each other at the same spot, on St. Brigid’s day the following year. The custom was a holdover from old Irish Brehon laws, which allowed temporary marriage contracts. Italy Italies boundaries encompass a territory larger than the U.S. state of Arizona. Italy has around 40 million visitors per year and has the most hotel rooms of any European nation. Most Italian Americans can trace their roots to Naples.

    Italy is shaped like a boot!

    Rome is the capital with a population of 3 million!

    Italy has the Guinness Record for the country that has the most lifts.

    Italy has the lowest birthrate in all of Europe. How strange since Italian families are so large! Italians live a very long time! They eat 66 pounds of pasta and 60 litres of wine a year!

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  7. Wow Liam. You have done some good investigation into this :)

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    Lixnaw, County Kerry, Ireland

    *County Kerry is the 5th largest county in Ireland and takes up an 11% portion of Ireland’s landmass. The county has the longest coastline of any Irish County.

    I also know that I have ancestors from Staffordshire, England and that I'm part South American Indian :)

    I got my information from:
    http://www.goireland.com/blog/article/10-things-you-never-knew-about-kerry.html

    New Zealand Map Work:

    *Evansdale
    *Ellerton
    *Eyrewell

    *Evansdale Cheese Factory is a small New Zealand producer of hand-made cheeses, located at Hawksbury in Otago, about 35km north of Dunedin.

    I got my information from:
    http://www.ask.com/web?q=interesting+facts+about+evansdale+nz&qsrc=0&o=0&l=dir

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    Some of my ancestors come from England .
    *.Facts.*
    - The first public zoo in England opened in London in 1829. It was also a world's first.
    - There are over 300 languages spoken by people in the country of England.
    - England is known for cities and town with long names. It may shock you to know that Ely is the city in England with the shortest amount of letters it the name.

    New Zealand map work (:

    Towns starting with the letter 'e'
    Edendale
    Elmshill
    Evans Flat

    *.Fact about Edendale.*
    21.1 percent of people in Edendale Community were under the age of 15 years, compared with 22.7 percent for all of New Zealand.

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    *Eastbourne
    *Eltham
    *Eketahuna

    Eltham Facts:

    *Eltham is known as the cradle of the Taranaki dairy industry.
    *The town's main industry is cheese production.
    *Cheese has been used as a central symbol of the town, and to reinforce this view, the town's water supply tank was painted to represent a large block of cheese in 2002.
    *Eltham is also the gateway to Lake Rotokare, a scenic, natural lake surrounded by native bush (to the east of the town), and to the man-made Lake Rotorangi.
    *Eltham School is a coeducational full primary (years 1-8) school with a decile rating of 3 and a roll of 186.The school was founded in 1886.

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    England Facts
    * England is 74 times smaller than the USA,
    59 times smaller than Australia and 3 times smaller than Japan.
    * The Author of the Harry POtter books (J.K Rowling)was born in Chipping Sodbury, Gloucestershire England.
    * England is only 35 km from France.

    New Zealand map work
    Towns
    -Evansdale
    -Elephant Hill
    -Ealing
    Facts
    *Evansdale is 25 km north of dunedin

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  12. hay guys I found out wre my famiy first come form scottland and my mum great great greats come from hawaki.

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  13. nz map work Edievale Eastbourne Ettrick Eastbourne is a suburb of Wellington situated near the sea and it has 2000 residential homes

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  14. my free towns that I goy were eastbourn and ettrick eltham.

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  15. I did Ireland and my fact is that saint patrick drov all the snakes out of Ireland.

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  16. World map work

    Country...
    DENMARK!!!

    Fact...
    The life expentancy for men is 75 and women 79.


    N.Z map work

    Three towns...
    *Evensdale
    *Ethalton
    *Edenham

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  17. My three towns are:
    Edendale
    Eketahuna
    Eastbourne

    Edendale only has one primary school.
    The population is 570.

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    *Errick
    *Eastbourne
    *Eltham
    fact on Errick
    *population was 1980 in the 2006 census,abecrease of 120 from 2001.

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    Holland

    fact
    *the dutch cap tile city is Amsterdam it is the seat of government

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  19. Queens country and kings country in Ireland is were some of my ansesters come from Irelands population in 2005 was 4,015,676.

    nz map work.
    Evans flat
    Erua
    Enerton

    Eura is surronned by lakes and rivers

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  20. nz map work

    edendale
    east coast bays
    erua

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  21. Grace M

    I wasnt able to trace back to the town but Ireland is the country.

    Facts about Ireland:
    -Capital is Dublin
    -Total area is 70,280sq km


    New Zealand map work:
    -Eastbourne
    -Evansbay
    -Egmont national park
    Evansbay is known for having a large marina.
    Evansbay is on the south end of the Wellington harbour.

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