However, disease and attacks from Māori saw the numbers of this peace-loving tribe become severely depleted. Prior to 1840, it was mainly whalers, sealers, and missionaries who came to New Zealand. By the late 1830s New Zealand had been joined to Europe, and European settlers landed by the score. After the British assumed formal control of New Zealand in 1840, European settlement and government began to alarm the Maori, especially in North Island. The company’s plans to buy large quantities of (cheap) land for settlement led to concerns that Māori would be defrauded. Cook successfully circumnavigated and mapped the country, and led two more expeditions to New Zealand before being killed in Hawaii in 1779. 8. Māori ancestors were the first settlers in New Zealand. The Maori were developing agriculturally, selling food to the European settlers and exporting food to California. Maori chiefs met in the Taranaki area in hope of halting further sales of land to settlers. Early European settlers. The first people to come to the islands of New Zealand were the Polynesians, around 1250-1300, and they brought with them, (likely by accident), the Pacific rat. The ancestors of New Zealand’s indigenous Maori people are said to have arrived from an East Polynesian region known as Hawaiki. There are various types of lists including both outbound and inbound passengers at the various port of New Zealand. These settlers had considerable contact with Māori, especially in coastal areas. The survey ship Tory left for New Zealand in May 1839 to purchase land and prepare settlements for the emigrants the company was recruiting. In the late 18th century, there were about 2000 Moriori living on the Chathams. The writing of Percy Smith and Elsdon Best from the late 19th century theorised about pre-Māori settlement. But historians and archaeologists believe that the country’s original migrants came from several locations – DNA evidence indicates that the first round of settlers arrived from places like Society Island and Cook Islands. The earliest outbound lists are from minor ports (ports other than Auckland or Wellington) and begin in 1886. The rise of the King Movement. New Zealand also has a unique array of vegetation and animal life, much of which developed … Whalers, missionaries, and traders followed, and in 1840 Britain formally annexed the islands and established New Zealand’s first permanent European settlement at Wellington. Most European New Zealanders are of British and Irish ancestry, with smaller percentages of other European ancestries such as Germans, Greeks, Poles (historically noted as German due to Partitions of Poland), French, Dutch, Scandinavians, Croats and other South Slavs. New Zealand was the last large and livable place in the world to be discovered. New Zealand is a land of great contrasts and diversity.Active volcanoes, spectacular caves, deep glacier lakes, verdant valleys, dazzling fjords, long sandy beaches, and the spectacular snowcapped peaks of the Southern Alps on the South Island—all contribute to New Zealand’s scenic beauty. European New Zealanders are New Zealanders of European descent. The first people to arrive in New Zealand were ancestors of the Māori. Moriori are believed to have migrated to the Chathams from the South Island of New Zealand. Here is a look at eight animals introduced to the country by European settlers, and the problems that resulted. Norway Rats The Norway rat. The first settlers probably arrived from Polynesia between 1200 and 1300 AD. Pre-European Māori culture was oral, and based on small autonomous sub-tribes living in valleys, harbours and other localities. Māori settlement. The last full-blooded Moriori is believed to have died in 1933. But Maori unrest continued. 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