The South Pacific nation of New Zealand is the ancestral home of the Maori, sea-faring settlers from the eastern Polynesia. With its unique flora and fauna, New Zealand offers a large array of plants ...
Our planet’s magnetic field is constantly changing and evolving, making it impossible to know how the field behaved at any given point in the past. The only real way to study ancient magnetism is ...
New Zealand’s Maori chiefs have anointed Nga Wai hono i te po as their new queen and eighth monarch, to succeed her father King Tuheitia Potatau Te Wherowhero VII who passed away at 69 after a heart ...
The preserved tattooed heads and skeletal remains of 107 Maori and Moriori are set to return home more than a century after collectors took them to line the shelves of American museums. Te Papa is ...
Maori history and British colonization would be taught to all children under the new rules, which supporters say reflects a renewed recognition of Maori history and culture WELLINGTON, Feb 3 (Reuters) ...
When the first Maori came to the Pacific shores of New Zealand from East Polynesia roughly a thousand years ago, they found a temperate climate and pristine coastlines that stretched for miles. Their ...
According to Maori myths and legends, a demigod named Maui was fishing with his brothers from a canoe – which is now known as the South Island – when he hooked a giant catch: the massive piece of land ...
An international team of scientists used data from Antarctic ice cores to trace a 700-year old increase in black carbon to an unlikely source: ancient Maori land-burning practices in New Zealand, ...
Although Captain Cook's mission to New Zealand and Australia didn't involve colonisation, the legacy of his voyage aboard the Endeavour, and of what came after, has been far-reaching. Merata Kawharu ...