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Printable version; In other projects ... New Zealand and Australia may be a perspective on Australia–New Zealand relations. from New Zealand Australians ...
"Sailing Away" is a 1986 single by a supergroup of New Zealand singers and personalities, to promote New Zealand yacht KZ 7 in the 1987 America's Cup.It spent nine weeks at #1 in the single chart, the longest run of a New Zealand single until 2009.
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At first New Zealand was administered from Australia as part of the colony of New South Wales, and from 16 June 1840 New South Wales laws were deemed to operate in New Zealand. [68] This was a transitional arrangement, and the British Government issued the Charter for Erecting the Colony of New Zealand on 16 November 1840.
1991 Australia tour of New Zealand: 93 27 October 1991 Lansdowne Road, Dublin 6–16 Australia: 1991 Rugby World Cup Semi-final: 94 4 July 1992 Sydney Football Stadium, Sydney 16–15 Australia: 1992 New Zealand tour of Australia and South Africa: 95 19 July 1992 Ballymore Stadium, Brisbane 19–17 Australia: 96 25 July 1992
The name Australia was specifically applied to the continent for the first time in 1794, [5] with the botanists George Shaw and Sir James Smith writing of "the vast island, or rather continent, of Australia, Australasia or New Holland" in their 1793 Zoology and Botany of New Holland, [16] and James Wilson including it on a 1799 chart. [17] The ...
Abel Tasman's voyage of 1642 was the first known European expedition to reach Van Diemen's Land (later Tasmania) and New Zealand, and to sight Fiji. On his second voyage of 1644, he also contributed significantly to the mapping of Australia proper, making observations on the land and people of the north coast below New Guinea. [15]
The central plank of the theory of Portuguese discovery of Australia suggests the continent called Jave la Grande, which uniquely appears on a series of 16th-century French world maps, the Dieppe school of maps, represents Australia. Speaking in 1982, Kenneth McIntyre described the Dieppe maps as "the only evidence of Portuguese discovery of ...