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The first European known to reach New Zealand was the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman, who arrived with his ships Heemskerck and Zeehaen in 1642. Over 100 years later, in 1769, the British naval captain James Cook of HM Bark Endeavour made the first of his three visits.
Surviving immigrants from the first six ships celebrate 75 years in Christchurch (Godley Statue, 1925)Edward Gibbon Wakefield and Irish-born John Robert Godley, the guiding forces within the Canterbury Association, organised an offshoot of the New Zealand Company, a settlement in a planned English enclave in an area now part of the Wairarapa in the North Island of New Zealand.
New Zealand Company Coat of Arms. The New Zealand Company was a 19th-century English company that played a key role in the colonisation of New Zealand.The company was formed to carry out the principles of systematic colonisation devised by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, who envisaged the creation of a new-model English society in the southern hemisphere.
Ships royal all the ships listed (except Prince Royal) were rebuilds of earlier ships Prince Royal 55 (1610) [ 4 ] – which, while a new ship, was built as a replacement for the former Victory . White Bear 51 [ 5 ] (1599) – Sold 1629
The first Europeans known to have reached New Zealand were the crew of Dutch explorer Abel Tasman who arrived in his ships Heemskerck and Zeehaen. Tasman anchored at the northern end of the South Island in Golden Bay (he named it Murderers' Bay) in December 1642, and sailed northward to Tonga following an attack by local Māori, Ngāti ...
The Philip Laing was a 19th-century sailing ship best known as the second immigrant ship to arrive in Dunedin, New Zealand, on 15 April 1848.Chartered by the New Zealand Company for this voyage the ship was carrying Scottish settlers, under the charge of the Rev. Dr. Thomas Burns.
[149] 148 Niuean men, 4% of the island's population, were soldiers in the New Zealand armed forces from that point on. [ 150 ] [ 151 ] World War II, however, would have no impact on the island. Niue started seeking self-governance after World War II, but, financial aid and family remittances helped delay this until 1974, when Niue officially ...
When European and American ships began visiting New Zealand in the early 1800s, the indigenous Māori quickly recognised there were great advantages in trading with these strangers, whom they called tauiwi. [7] The Bay of Islands offered a safe anchorage and had a large Māori population.