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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I was initially surprised that anyone could disappear in New Zealand for that long. I always think of it as a small island, due to its proximity to the much larger Australia.

It's not as small as I thought. It's 268,021 km2 (103,483 sq mi), about the size of Colorado.