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04-28-2017, 05:51 PM
TV news map shows double the New Zealand, and yes, everyone made the same joke
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Despite being the most magical, nicest country in the world (sit down, Iceland), New Zealand doesn't get e**ugh attention. It's ** wonder its citizens have a slight identity crisis when they're continually left off world maps (http://worldmapswithout.nz/). You could say they have a chup on their shoulder (sorry).*
So it was with both with excitement and confusion that Down Under Twitter users LOL'ed in the face of a geographical error so nice, it featured New Zealand twice.
SEE ALSO: A new 'continent's' been found under the magical land of New Zealand (http://mashable.com/2017/02/16/new-zealand-continent-zealandia/?utm_cid=a-seealso&utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
Viewers of Australia's ABC News were treated to double the island nation on Wednesday night, with a map of New Zealand seen about 4,000 kilometers west of the original New Zealand. Was this the fabled Zealandia of myth (http://mashable.com/2017/02/16/new-zealand-continent-zealandia/)? Was it the secret citizen (http://mashable.com/2017/02/01/peter-thiel-new-zealand-citizenship/) hiding place of Trump's tech buddy Peter Thiel? Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/27/double-new-zealand-map/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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Despite being the most magical, nicest country in the world (sit down, Iceland), New Zealand doesn't get e**ugh attention. It's ** wonder its citizens have a slight identity crisis when they're continually left off world maps (http://worldmapswithout.nz/). You could say they have a chup on their shoulder (sorry).*
So it was with both with excitement and confusion that Down Under Twitter users LOL'ed in the face of a geographical error so nice, it featured New Zealand twice.
SEE ALSO: A new 'continent's' been found under the magical land of New Zealand (http://mashable.com/2017/02/16/new-zealand-continent-zealandia/?utm_cid=a-seealso&utm_campaign=&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source=)
Viewers of Australia's ABC News were treated to double the island nation on Wednesday night, with a map of New Zealand seen about 4,000 kilometers west of the original New Zealand. Was this the fabled Zealandia of myth (http://mashable.com/2017/02/16/new-zealand-continent-zealandia/)? Was it the secret citizen (http://mashable.com/2017/02/01/peter-thiel-new-zealand-citizenship/) hiding place of Trump's tech buddy Peter Thiel? Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/04/27/double-new-zealand-map/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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