How did maori get to NZ?

Answer 1

answ2. The kiwi belongs to a group of Flightless Birds known as Ratites.

This group includes the cassowary, emu, ostrich, and kiwi. These birds have never been able to fly as they lack a 'keel bone' to which flight muscles are attached.

That last statement is open to discussion, as more research is conducted and DNA trees are unravelled. In any event, none of the close ancestors possessed the power of flight.

Remember, birds most probably evolved from dinosaurs, and apart from some dino's who have 'wings' similar to bats, (really arms with stretched skin); there were no flying dinosaurs.

Reverting to the question, modern research suggests that the Kiwi arrived in NZ later than the Moa, and possibly by a series of island hops.

A1. It flew to New Zealand and because there are no predators the Kiwi lost its ability to fly. [NOT SO]

Answer 2

Maori society evolved in Aotearoa (New Zealand) and is made up of many Iwi (tribes).It was the Polynesian ancestors of the Maori who travelled in large out rigger canoes (with sails) called Wakanui.

Answer 3

The Polynesian ancestors of the Maori arrived in New Zealand , Aotearoa, by a succession of island hopping canoe voyages, about 1300. The Maori are a Polynesian people; as distinct from Melanesian and Micronesian; and indeed, the bounds of Polynesia are New Zealand, Easter Island (Rapanui), and Hawaii.

Answer 4

If 'they' is meaning the Maori Warriors and Iwi who were originally living in New Zealand, they travelled to New Zealand by waka, which is a canoe type boat.

If the question refers to how European settlement of New Zealand occurred:

Abel Tasman was a Dutch explorer and trader who first "discovered" New Zealand. However, New Zealand was not occupied by Europeans until several decades after James Cook circumnavigated the islands, and claimed New Zealand for Great Britain. After this, the earliest settlers were whalers and sealers, all of whom came by ship. Official British settlement of New Zealand began in 1840 which was when the Treaty of Waitangi was signed by the Maori Chiefs.

Answer 5

They sailed there in Wakanui, large ocean-going canoes.

Answer 6

The Polynesian ancestors of the Maori travelled to New Zealand in Wakanui, great ocean-going canoes.

Answer 7

They came agross on there wakas/ boats

Answer 8

Boat.