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The Tasman Sea ( Mori : " Te Tai - o - Rehua ") is a marginal sea of the South Pacific Ocean , situated between ___MASK3___ and New Zealand . It measures about across and about from north to south . The sea was named after the Dutch explorer Abel Janszoon Tasman , who was the first recorded European to encounter New Zealand and Tasmania . The British explorer Captain James Cook later extensively navigated the Tasman Sea in the 1770s as part of his first voyage of exploration . New Zealand is an ___MASK35___ nation in the southwestern Pacific Ocean . The country geographically comprises two main landmasses  that of the North ___MASK35___ , or Te Ika - a - Mui , and the South ___MASK35___ , or Te Waipounamu  and numerous smaller islands . New Zealand is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea and roughly south of the Pacific ___MASK35___ areas of New Caledonia , Fiji , and Tonga . Because of its remoteness , it was one of the last lands to be settled by humans . During its long period of isolation , New Zealand developed a distinct biodiversity of animal , fungal and plant life . The country ' s varied topography and its sharp mountain peaks , such as the Southern Alps , owe much to the tectonic uplift of land and volcanic eruptions . New Zealand ' s capital city is Wellington , while its most populous city is Auckland . The North ___MASK35___ or Te Ika - a - Mui (" Mori ") is one of the two main islands of New Zealand , separated from the slightly larger but much less populous South ___MASK35___ by Cook Strait . The ___MASK35___ ' s area is , making it the world ' s 14th - largest ___MASK35___ . It has a population of ___MASK3___ , officially the Commonwealth of ___MASK3___ , is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent , the ___MASK35___ of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands . It is the world ' s sixth - largest country by total area . The neighbouring countries are Papua New Guinea , Indonesia and East Timor to the north ; the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu to the north - east ; and New Zealand to the south - east . ___MASK3___ ' s capital is Canberra , and its largest urban area is Sydney . Split Enz were a New Zealand art rock and ___MASK14___ band during the late 1970s and early 1980s featuring brothers Tim and Neil Finn . ___MASK64___ is a British record ___MASK98___ that was created in 1969 . The name was both a reference to the pupal stage of a butterfly and a combination of its founders ' names , Chris Wright and Terry Ellis . It started as the Ellis - Wright Agency . The Pacific Ocean is the largest of the Earth ' s oceanic divisions . It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean ( or , depending on definition , to Antarctica ) in the south and is bounded by Asia and ___MASK3___ in the west and the Americas in the east . Fiji ((), officially the Republic of Fiji , is an ___MASK35___ country in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about northeast of New Zealand ' s North ___MASK35___ . Its closest neighbours are Vanuatu to the west , New Caledonia to the southwest , New Zealand ' s Kermadec Islands to the southeast , Tonga to the east , the Samoas and France ' s Wallis and Futuna to the northeast , and Tuvalu to the north . New Caledonia is a special collectivity of ___MASK11___ located in the southwest Pacific Ocean , east of Australia and east of Metropolitan ___MASK11___ . The archipelago , part of the Melanesia subregion , includes the main ___MASK35___ of Grande Terre , the Loyalty Islands , the Chesterfield Islands , the Belep archipelago , the Isle of Pines , and a few remote islets . The Chesterfield Islands are in the Coral Sea . Locals refer to Grande Terre as "" (" the pebble "). Dizrythmia ( 1977 ) is the third ___MASK8___ released by New Zealand new wave band , Split Enz . It was the first Split Enz ___MASK8___ without co - founding members Phil Judd and Mike Chunn . Neil Finn and Nigel Griggs , the first being the younger brother of band leader Tim Finn , replaced them respectively . Meanwhile , Nigel ' s old friend and former bandmate Malcolm Green took the place of Emlyn Crowther who also left around this time . The ___MASK8___ was released domestically by ___MASK19___ , and overseas by Chrysalis Records . The Southern Alps ( Mori : K Tiritiri o te Moana ) are a mountain range extending along much of the length of New Zealand ' s South ___MASK35___ , reaching its greatest elevations near the ___MASK35___ ' s western side . The term " Southern Alps " generally refers to the entire range , although separate names are given to many of the smaller ranges that form part of it . Wellington is the capital city and second most populous urban area of New Zealand , with residents . It is at the south - western tip of the North ___MASK35___ , between Cook Strait and the Rimutaka Range . Wellington is the major population centre of the southern North ___MASK35___ and is the administrative centre of the Wellington Region , which also includes the Kapiti Coast and Wairarapa . As the nation ' s capital city , the New Zealand Government and Parliament , Supreme Court and most of the civil ___MASK83___ are based in the city . ___MASK44___ is a genre of popular music that originated as " rock and roll " in the United States in the 1950s , and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later , particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States . It has its roots in 1940s ' and 1950s ' rock and roll , itself heavily influenced by blues , rhythm and blues and country music . ___MASK44___ also drew strongly on a number of other genres such as electric blues and folk , and incorporated influences from jazz , classical and other musical sources . Art rock is a subgenre of ___MASK44___ that generally reflects a challenging or avant - garde approach to rock , or which makes use of modernist , experimental , or unconventional elements . Art rock aspires to elevate rock from teen entertainment to an artistic statement , opting for a more experimental and conceptual outlook on music . Influences may be drawn from several genres , such as experimental rock , avant - garde music , classical music , and jazz . Auckland is a city in the North ___MASK35___ of New Zealand . It is the most populous urban area in the country . Auckland has a population of , which constitutes percent of New Zealand ' s population . It is part of the wider Auckland Region  the area governed by the Auckland Council  which also includes outlying rural areas and the islands of the Hauraki Gulf , resulting in a total population of . Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world . The Mori language name for Auckland is or , meaning " Tmaki with a hundred lovers ", in reference to the desirability of its fertile land at the hub of waterways in all directions . It has also been called karana , the Mori enunciation of " Auckland ". Tonga ( or ; Tongan : " Puleanga Fakatui o Tonga "), officially the Kingdom of Tonga , is a Polynesian sovereign state and archipelago comprising 169 islands of which 36 are inhabited . The total surface area is about scattered over of the southern Pacific Ocean . It has a population of 103 , 000 people of whom 70 % reside on the main ___MASK35___ of Tongatapu . The South ___MASK35___ or Te Waipounamu (" Mori ") is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand , the other being the smaller but more populous North ___MASK35___ . It is bordered to the north by Cook Strait , to the west by the Tasman Sea , and to the south and east by the Pacific Ocean . The South ___MASK35___ covers and is influenced by a temperate climate . ___MASK19___ was an Australian flagship record label , founded in 1972 in Melbourne . It published and distributed many successful Australian artists and expanded internationally , until it was merged with Festival Records in 1998 . Festival ___MASK19___ was later acquired by Warner Bros . Records , which operated the label from 2005 to 2010 until it folded to Warner Bros . Records . Founder Michael Gudinski is now the leader of the Mushroom Group , the largest independent music and entertainment company in Australia . Neil Mullane Finn OBE ( born 27 May 1958 ) is a New Zealand singer / songwriter and musician . Along with his brother Tim Finn , he was the co - frontman for Split Enz , a project that he joined after it was initially founded by Tim Finn and others , and is now frontman for Crowded House . He has also recorded several successful solo albums and assembled diverse musicians for the 7 Worlds ___MASK66___ project ; contributor Ed O ' Brien , also guitarist for Radiohead , has hailed Finn as popular music ' s " most prolific writer of great songs ". `` My Mistake '' is a 1977 song by New Zealand art rock group Split Enz from their studio ___MASK8___ Dizrythmia . `` My Mistake '' was the first Split Enz song to achieve a top 20 chart position , peaking at # 15 in ___MASK3___ and # 21 in the band ' s native New Zealand .