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 New Zealand are two islands east of Australia inhabited by sailors from Polynesia since the Middle Ages in three different phases in which they adapted to form small villages and cultivated crops. The Geography in the two islands is diverse with alpine forests, glaciers, deserts, geysers, tropical forests and beaches, the northern island has tropical weather whilst in the south island is falls to -0 in winter, there are many rivers and mountains, lakes, forests and more than eighty volcanoes because it is located in "the Ring of Fire". The Northern island is smaller though it is more populated, Wellington is its capital city and Auckland, the most populated. There is a volcanic plateau on the side of lake Taupo , on the east there are mountain ranges and rivers and farmlands of sheep in the Taranaki region. The South Island has mountain ranges as the Southern Alps, cliffs looking to the Tasman Sea and valleys with crops and farms. History says that the first Europeans arrive...

Australia is a continent which forms a country, apparently Asians from India and Malaysa arrived to Australia thousands of years ago, the Aborigines have many stories about the creation of their country named "the Dreaming" and its origins such as the story of the Rainbow serpent. However Captain Cook discovered it for England in July 1770 and the scientists in the ship "Endeavour" called animals, plants and places such as the kangaroos, Botany Bay or New Soth Wales and from the beginning of the nineteenth century the British Empire used this vast continent as a huge prison where usually poor people who had committed petty crimes could redeem themselves by hard work as farmers and other jobs.The geography shows a huge desert in the centre named the Outback, the Pacific in the east, Indian Ocean in the west and the Southern ocean in the south which the coastline enjoys a moderate climate whilst in the north there is a tropical climate wet season very hot and dry seas...

 Canada was inhabited by Asian who arrived on foot through the Strait of Bering, once a dry land and these people were called the "First Nations" like Iroquouis, Métis and Innuit and they hunted animals, fished, cultivated the land and later traded with furs with Europeans like Leif Ericson a Norse explorer, John Cabot an English explorer sent by king Henry VII settled in Cape Breton and the French king Francis I sent Jacques Cartier found Prince Edward Island, later French explorer Samuel de Champlain established Quebec and more colonies in New France. More Europeans arrived to trade for the fur and fish establishing the Hudson Bay Trading Post in 1670, but French and British wanted to control all the land so the Seven Years´ War started in 1756 finishing with the defeat of the French, after the American Independence many colonists loyal to England seek refuge in Canada. The colonies signed an agreement on 1st July, 1867 uniting Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario...

 Wales was an independent nation during most of the Middle Ages since the early settlers were Celts, they were invaded by Romans and the Normans fought against them to control rebellions after William the Conqueror but the worst invasion was led by the English king Edward I who built many castles such as Caernafon and Conwy castles to keep Welsh rebels controlled. The Welsh continued their fight with heroes  like Owain Glyndwr, the last native Welsh to hold the title of Prince of Wales through rebellions till Henry VIII of England passed in 1535 and 1542 the Laws of Wales Acts giving the same legal rights to Welsh as English people. The climate is mild atlantic though changeable and stormy in the coast and its geography is diverse and beautiful landscapes of the coastline with sandy beaches or high cliffs and many islands, it has valleys and also mountains in the north and central part in Snowdonia National Park with high peaks like Crib Goch in Snowdon Mountains. Legends has...

 Although Scotland belongs to the United Kingdom for many centuries remained an independent country. It was never conquered by Romans who under emperor Hadrian built a wall to divide Britain from Scotia or Alba where fierce tribes named Picts lived and it was not invaded by Angles nor Saxons but they had their own leaders. It is a country with a population of nearly six million people and there are still around sixty thousand people who speak Scottish Gaelic. Scotland was an independent with its monarchs but in 1286  king Alexander III died with no successor, nobles governed the country and seek advise from the English king Edward I who chose the weakes man, John Balliol. Later in 1296 king Edward´s army conquered Scotland forcing John Balliol to abdicate till William Wallace, the son of a Scottish landowner claimed to fight for independence, he led his men to a victory in the Battle of Stirling Bridge in 1297 but Wallace was finally defeated at the Battle of Fakirk in 1298 an...

 Ireland is a country located in one the British Isles and it has around five million inhabitants though it is said which is the country with more population abroad in the world due to frequent immigrations through centuries during the English colonization. It has many important cities such as Dublin, its capital, Limerick, Galway, Belfast and Londonderry (in Northern Ireland belongs to the United Kingdom), Waterford, Kilkenny, Tallaght, Swords, Drogheda, Bray, Dundelk, Douglas, Dún Laoghaire, Armagh and others smaller with a rich heritage since the Celts, Middle Ages from the Viking or Norman invaders or later the English (Romans never invade Ireland) or Irish landmarks. There are also 26 counties such as Cork, Mayo, Donegal, Tipperay, Tyrone, Clare, Antrim, Roscommon, Down, Wexford, Meath, Wicklow, Offaly, Sligo, Laois, Kildare, Leitrim, Monaghan, Armagh, Carlow, Louth...English invasion started since the English Pale around Dublin and increased during the Renaissance in settleme...