‘The legend of the voyage to New Zealand’

‘The legend of the voyage to New Zealand’

This romantic oil painting of 1912 shows a fleet of double-hulled, ocean-going canoes hauling ashore in New Zealand from a still lagoon. Images such as this helped to popularise the myth of a Great Fleet for decades.

• Canoe navigation

• Canoe traditions

• European discovery of New Zealand

• Hawaiki

• Moriori

• Pacific migrations

• The New Zealanders

• When was New Zealand first settled?

• MAORI MYTHS AND TRADITIONS

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