Who first discovered New Zealand and how?

Reims is one of the newly established immigrant countries. From about 500 BC to 1300 BC, West Asian immigrants from Porini arrived in New Zealand, forming the Maori culture of the local aborigines.

It is known that the first Europeans who arrived in New Zealand were the fleet led by Dutch Abel Janszoon Tasman, which sailed to the west coast of the North and South Islands on 1642. The Dutch didn't know that the north and south islands were separated, so they all named it Staaten Landt (state-owned land). Later, according to their base in Tawiah, it was renamed Nieuw Zeeland. Tawiah base is named after Ceylon province in the Netherlands.

1769, Captain james cook began to study New Zealand carefully. He visited the South Pacific and New Zealand three times and drew maps for New Zealand. But in the original map, he regarded Stewart Island as a peninsula and drew Banks Peninsula as an island. Cook led to the expansion of European whaling ships in New Zealand waters, and he pushed New Zealand to eventually become a European colony.

New Zealand became a British colony by the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840. The Treaty of Waitangi has English and Maori versions, and was signed by representatives of the British royal family and Maori ethnic groups. The Maori version of the Treaty of Waitangi promises the New Zealand Maori ethnic group "tino rangatiratanga". In the English version of the Treaty of Waitangi, the word is translated as "the position of leader", but in Maori, it means "autonomy". Because people have different understandings, this word and other problems still cause bad feelings between the government and the Maori people. For example, about the ownership of the seabed and foreshore.