Kōrero: Scots
Whārangi 13. Hononga, rauemi nō waho
Ētahi atu tūhononga, pae tukutuku hoki
Electric Scotland
This site, prepared in Scotland, is about Scots and people of Scottish descent living in New Zealand, and about Scottish immigration to New Zealand.
A home away from 'home'
This NZ History website article examines the question of where all British immigrants, including the Scots, came from and why.
Homepage of the Waipu Caledonian Society
The site focuses on the annual Highland games held in one of New Zealand’s oldest Scottish settlements, Waipū. It also tells about the history of the town and the descendants of its Scottish settlers.
Ētahi whakaaro puaki, takenga
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Brooking, Tom, and Jennie Coleman, eds. The
heather and the fern: Scottish migration & New
Zealand settlement. Dunedin: Otago University
Press, 2003. -
Butterworth, Susan, and Graham Butterworth.
Chips off the auld rock: Shetlanders in New
Zealand. Wellington: Shetland Society of
Wellington, 1997. -
Hewitson, Jim. Far off in sunlit places:
stories of the Scots in Australia and New
Zealand. Carlton South: Melbourne University
Press, 1998. -
Hutching, Megan. Long journey for
sevenpence: assisted immigration to New Zealand
from the United Kingdom, 1947–1975.
Wellington: Victoria University Press/Historical
Branch, Dept of Internal Affairs, 1999. -
Molloy, Maureen. Those who speak to the
heart: the Nova Scotian Scots of Waipu,
1854–1920. Palmerston North: Dunmore,
1991. -
Ogilvie, Gordon. Pioneers of the plains: the
Deans of Canterbury. Christchurch: Shoal Bay,
1996.
Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang
John Wilson, Scots, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/story/22314/sources (accessed 4 June 2026).
He kōrero nā John Wilson, i tāngia i te 4 March 2009, updated 1 August 2024.