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The earliest settlers of New Zealand are thought to have originated from eastern Polynesia, around the turn of the first millennium. By Capt. James Cook’s arrival in 1769, settlements existed throughout the North Island, with smaller settlements in the South Island. The first recorded European contact was Dutch explorer Abel Tasman in 1642. A Dutch cartographer gave the name New Zealand to compliment the larger New Holland (Australia).
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Turner, B. (2004). New Zealand. In: Turner, B. (eds) The Statesman’s Yearbook 2005. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230271333_230
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