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The Polynesian explorers that discovered Aotearoa New Zealand on their voyages of discovery through the use of navigation, astronomy, meteorology, oceanography and marine Biology. the first European most probably, Joseph Banks or one of his team on James Cook's Endeavour. The main purpose of Cook's three expeditions was scientific.

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