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According to the 2001 UK Census, 58,286 New Zealand-born people were residing in the United Kingdom. [1] The 2011 census recorded 57,076 people born in New Zealand residing in England, 1,292 in Wales, [2] 3,632 in Scotland [3] and 584 in Northern Ireland. [4] The Office for National Statistics estimates that, in 2015, the New Zealand-born ...
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Maori. The word Māori refers to the indigenous people of New Zealand and their language. Both the term and the people are a hybrid of various Polynesian cultures, and are thought to have arrived in New Zealand more than one thousand years ago. The Maori people are well known for their distinctive traditional full-body and facial tattooing.
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The islands of New Zealand were the last large habitable land to be settled by humans. Between about 1280 and 1350, Polynesians began to settle in the islands and then subsequently developed a distinctive Māori culture. In 1642, the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman became the first European to sight and record New Zealand.
The Māori are the indigenous people of New Zealand. They were the first people to live in the islands. The Polynesian ancestors of the Māori came to New Zealand between 800 and 1300 AD. There are many theories about where the Maori came from. They arrived from somewhere in tropical Polynesia, either from the Cook Islands or the Society Islands.