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New Zealanders of European descent are mostly of British and Irish ancestry, with significantly smaller percentages of other European ancestries such as Germans, Poles, French, Dutch, Croats and other South Slavs, Greeks, and Scandinavians. European New Zealanders are also known by the Māori-language loanword Pākehā.
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Kiwiana. Yvette Williams. New Zealanders: Māori and European. New Zealand got its name (originally Nieuw Zeeland) after the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman reached its shores in 1642. The early European explorers and others who arrived after Tasman referred to Māori, the indigenous people, as ‘New Zealanders’.
New Zealanders of European descent are mostly of British and Irish ancestry, with significantly smaller percentages of other European ancestries such as Germans, Poles, French, Dutch, Croats and other South Slavs, Greeks, and Scandinavians. European New Zealanders are also known by the Māori-language loanword Pākehā.
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(Top) Early settlement. Legacy. Birthplace. Population. English culture in New Zealand. See also. References. Further reading. English New Zealanders are New Zealanders of English descent, or English-born people currently living in New Zealand.
European New Zealanders. All images & media in this story. Until 1840 people in New Zealand other than Māori were few in number and often on temporary visits, so there was little need to refine the distinction between New Zealanders (Māori) and Europeans.
