I love this map of New Zealand. It shows clearly the dominant histories of this land mass. In it's current incarnation it hasn't had enough time to form a significant difference in the height of it's land mass above the height of the surrounding sea floor to show a shadow on the map. Whereas it has in a couple of earlier incarnations, which presumably lasted millions of years. The last was roughly similar in shape to the existing one, but a single land mass rather than two main islands. Before that it looks like the island was almost as big as India, with a huge river starting off the coast of Dunedin. I'm guessing that at this point in it's history it was attached to Australia and India as part of the supercontinent Pangaea.
You can also see the line where the Pacific and Astralian tectonic plates meet down the line of the Southern Alps in the South Island up through the middle of the North Island and into the South Pacific.
A taste of our insignificance in the grander scheme of things.