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Te Papa Tongawera (or simply Te Papa) is New Zealand's innovative national museum situated near the foreshore of beautiful Wellington harbour. Te Papa Tongawera means “container of treasures” in Te Reo Maori, which is the indigenous language...

The Bay of Islands is a subtropical region in New Zealand's far north and is a popular destination for big-game fishing, sailing, and dolphin watching. It is an area rich in the history of Maori (Māori in their own language) and European...

The Maori people of Aotearoa (New Zealand) have long observed the heliacal (pre-dawn) rising of the star cluster commonly known throughout the world as Pleiades or Messier 45 (M45), located in the constellation of Taurus. Matariki is the...

The hei tiki is a small personal adornment, fashioned by hand from tough pounamu (New Zealand greenstone or nephrite jade), and is worn around the neck. Hei means something looped around the neck, and tiki is a generic word used throughout...

The cascading geothermal pink and white terraces of Aotearoa New Zealand were often referred to internationally and within New Zealand as the eighth wonder of the world. They were a famous tourist attraction in the 19th century until the...

Portrait painted by Gottfried Lindauer (1839 - 1926 CE) of Māori rangatira (chief) Tamati Waka Nene of the Ngāpuhi iwi (tribe) (1785 - 1871 CE). Portrait painted 1890 CE. (Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand)

War Speech by British painter Augustus Earle (1793-1838 CE) depicting an event of 1827-1828 CE in the Bay of Islands, New Zealand and showing the waka (traditional Maori warcraft canoe).

Photograph of Tawhiao, second King of the Māori (1822 - 1894 CE). The photo was taken in the 1880s CE by an unknown photographer.

The French exploration of New Zealand has been overshadowed by the achievements of British navigator Captain James Cook (1728-1779), but French navigators who visited Aotearoa's (New Zealand) shores named over 100 geographical places and...

Photograph taken by New Zealand photographer Arthur James Iles (1870 - 1943 CE) of a Maori woman from Rotorua, New Zealand with chin moko (moko kauae). Date photograph was taken is c. 1900 - 1920 CE.