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nā John Wilson

New Zealand’s human history is relatively short: it was the last habitable land mass in the world to be discovered, by the ancestors of Māori, probably in the 13th century. Large-scale European settlement began in the 1840s, and the subsequent social, political and economic changes have moved New Zealand from British colonial outpost to multicultural Pacific nation.

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Te āhua nui: Kororāreka Beach, by Augustus Earle

Kororāreka Beach, by Augustus Earle


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