![]() It would be 127 years before the next recorded encounter between European and Māori. ![]() The Māori response to this visit is less well-known, except for fragments of stories recorded in the 19th century. After he left in early January 1643, Tasman’s New Zealand became a ragged line on the world map. Tasman named the place we now call Golden Bay ‘Moordenaers’ (Murderers’) Bay. His only encounter with Māori ended badly, with four of his crew killed and Māori fired upon in retaliation. Abel Tasman was the first of the European explorers known to have reached New Zealand, in December 1642. First contactsīy the time the first Europeans arrived, Māori had settled the land, every corner of which came within the interest and influence of a tribal (iwi) or sub-tribal (hapū) grouping. This broad survey of New Zealand’s ‘long 19th century’ begins with the arrival of James Cook in 1769 and concludes in 1914, when New Zealand answered the call to arms for ‘King and Country’. ![]() In the period between the first European landings and the First World War, New Zealand was transformed from an exclusively Māori world into one in which Pākehā dominated numerically, politically, socially and economically. ![]()
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