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Kōrero: When was New Zealand first settled?

Ngā heke i Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa

Pacific migrations

I nōhia a Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa e ngā tāngata i hoe mai i te uru mā runga waka hourua. Heoi, ko te heke ki Aotearoa anake te heke kāore i whai i tēnei ia, ka wehe rā anō i Poronihia ki te rāwhiti kia heke ki te tonga mā uru. Ki te hoe koe atu i Poronihia i te rāwhiti ki Aotearoa, ka mahue e koe ngā hau āwaha (easterly), ka kuhu koe ki tētahi wāhi o te moana, me uaua ka mōhio koe e pupuhi pēhea ana ngā hau. Nāwai, ā, ka rongo koe i ngā hautūmū o te tuauru (westerly headwinds); he tāpokopoko, mātao ēnei wai. Heoi he rite te wā i te paunga o te kōanga me te raumati, ka huri te pupuhi o ngā hau e māmā ai te hoe ki te uru. Kāore hoki e nui te āwhā i tērā kaupeka o te tau.

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Geoff Irwin rāua ko Carl Walrond, When was New Zealand first settled? – The date debate, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/map/3614/nga-heke-i-te-moana-nui-a-kiwa (accessed 5 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Geoff Irwin rāua ko Carl Walrond, i tāngia i te 4 March 2009, updated 1 May 2016.

Comments

Shannon J. Murphy
19 August 2010
The Micronesian islands, about 2,000 islands located in an area closer to Asia, were settled much earlier. The Chamorro people settled the Mariana Islands in Micronesia some 4,000 years ago. They are believed to have sailed some 1,300 miles to the Marianas in the first major, open-sea migration in the history of mankind.