Oceania and Antarctica

New Zealand

What is Aotearoa

Aotearoa is the Maori name for New Zealand. It means “The Land of the Long White Cloud.”

A circa 1890, nineteenth-century painting of a Maori woman, the indigenous people of New Zealand (image courtesy of Alexander Turnbull Library).
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