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How new zealand got its maori name?

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12y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

Aotearoa is a descriptor name, "Land of the Long White Cloud", or so myth would tell us.

In the (probably apocryphal) myth of the discovery of Aotearoa by legendary Polynesian explorer, Kupe, he names the land (North Island in some versions, South Island in others) he and his crew find after the long stretch of white cloud they see which they take as a sign that there is land beneath it (In some versions it is Kupe's wife who names it Aotearoa).

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