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Here are some sites to help you find out about geography: peoples and places.

* AccessScience
The McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology online. Contains heaps of info. Click the "Student Centre" study guides, then click on your subject.
Access this with your library card number and PIN, or at our libraries.
* Grolier Online
Grolier Online Passport includes the Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, New Book of Popular Science and Lands and People.
Access this with your library card number and PIN, or at our libraries.
* Lands and People
Encyclopedia of Countries, Cultures, and Current Events. Resource for schools, from Grolier Online.
Access this with your library card number and PIN, or at our libraries.
* NCEA Geography topics & issues
Resources for topics and issues in NCEA Geography
* Atlapedia Online
physical and political maps.
* Blank Maps
This site contains a collection of blank outline maps of the countries and continents of the world. It also features information about each country and links to relevant websites
* CIA World Factbook
Data is available for over 250 countries. For each country, quick facts are provided on topics including a map and flag, geography, population, government, economic, communication, transportation, and military.
* Environment Canterbury
Find out about environmental issues in Canterbury - air, coastal, water, waste, pests & weeds, etc. Also provides a great link to Reduce Your Rubbish.
* Flags Of The World
More than 14,500 pages about flags, and view more than 25,700 images of flags. Flags searchable by country.
* Getty thesaurus of geographic names
Enter the name of a town, river, mountain, nation, state, neighbourhood etc to find vernacular, English and historical names, name variants and coordinates. Often includes additional information about the places.
* Homework Central
Information about the City of Christchurch and the Christchurch City Council. Includes Natural Environment and Waste & Litter. From Christchurch City Council.
* How far is it?
Calculate distances between larger cities worldwide
* National Geographic Online
Website of the magazine of the same name. While the full contents of the magazine are not available electronically, an index is provided to identify dates particular topics were covered. Provides interactive media, homework help, guides, images, news and some articles. From the National Geographic Society
* National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Stuff for students about climate, weather and water
* NZTopoOnline
Coverage of the 1:50,000 scale topographic mapping of New Zealand published by LINZ for the New Zealand government.
* Prentice Hall Phenomena Backgrounders
Provides information on events and phenomena that affect earth and its people can be found here. News, detailed information on the atmosphere, droughts, earthquakes, fauna, flora, fire, floods, health, hurricanes, oil spills, radioactivity, storms, tornados, and volcanoes can be found here.
* UN Data
Search data from the United Nations - economics, population, environment, trade, energy and more.
* Visible Earth
The purpose of NASA's Visible Earth is to provide a consistently updated, central point of access to the superset of NASA's Earth science-related images, animations, and data visualizations.
* Webstrider
Heaps of helpful links for various study topics including maths, reference & facts. Definitely check out their Geography sites for heaps of great info and pics