New Zealand is a tiny country, right?
Actually, although the human population of New Zealand is barely four million, the territorial expanse of greater New Zealand, known as “The Realm of New Zealand” (defined below), is actually quite large, both in the area of the surface covered and its longitudinal coverage.
New Zealand: The North Island and South Island, plus:
* – Chatham Islands: Special territorial authority
* – Kermadec Islands, Chatham Islands, other outlying islands: Areas outside regional authority
Realm of New Zealand: New Zealand, plus:
* – Tokelau: State administered by New Zealand
* – Cook Islands, Niue: States in free association with New Zealand
* – Ross Dependency: Claimed by New Zealand, but claim “frozen” by the Antarctic Treaty
About Curzon
Lord George Nathaniel Curzon (1859 - 1925) entered the British House of Commons as a Conservative MP in 1886, where he served as undersecretary of India and Foreign Affairs. He was appointed Viceroy of India at the turn of the 20th century where he delineated the North West Frontier Province,
ordered a military expedition to Tibet, and unsuccessfully tried to partition the province of Bengal during his six-year tenure. Curzon served as Leader of the House of Lords in Prime Minister Lloyd George's War Cabinet and became Foreign Secretary in January 1919, where his most famous act was
the drawing of the Curzon Line between a new Polish state and Russia. His publications include
Russia in Central Asia (1889) and
Persia and the Persian Question (1892).
In real life, "Curzon" is a US citizen from the East Coast who has been a financial analyst, freelance translator, and university professor; he is currently on assignment in Tokyo.
103,000 square miles is not tiny. California ia 163,000, Japan is 147,000, by way of comparison.
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That ain’t tiny.
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I was not aware of the stretch of its outlying dependencies. It is blessed to be so remote. Otherwise it would have a very serious defense burden, with all that dispersed territory to secure.
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