New Zealand is famous for having more sheep than people, a nation of
rugby mad fans and the home of world famous rugby star Jonah Lomu.
New Zealand lies southeast of Australia in the South Pacific Ocean and
comprises of two main islands: North Island and South Island and a
number of smaller islands: Antipodes Islands, Auckland Islands, Bounty
Islands, Campbell Island, Chatham Islands, and Kermadec Islands. In
comparison, New Zealand is about the size of Colorado.
Aotearoa - “Land of the Long White Cloud” was the Maori name given to
New Zealand by Hine-te-aparangi, wife of Polynesian navigator Kupe.
According to a Maori tradition widely spread among the tribes, around
800 AD, Zealand was discovered by Kupe, who cut up Maui’s fish into the
present islands. Kupe did not settle. He returned across the sea. When
he reached Hawaiki, the ancestral home of the Maoris, he allegedly gave
directions for reaching Tiritiri o te Moana, the Gift of the Sea, an
ancient name for New Zealand.
In the even more distant pass the Polynesians had come in their sailing
canoes across the Pacific, island by island, from the East Indies. It
may be too, that some ancestors of the Polynesians had sailed from South
America or rafts, like the Kon Tiki, bringing the sweet potato and other
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Letele, Roshni, Sham, Teleiai Su’a
Edwin, Ruta & Olo Elise on arrival at Faleolo Airport. |
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