On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 21:08 +1200, Wesley Parish wrote: > I take it you are referring to European migrants to New Zealand? Maori > arrived roughly about 1000 years ago.
In small numbers and they are not like native Australians who date back far longer. Given the physical geographical size of Australia its easy to see how the region got named Australasia at the time. > New Zealand is still the world's > last-settled land of any significant size, (and Australia has one of the > world's oldest sites of settlement by Homo Sapiens as opposed to Homo > Erectus, a lot earlier than the first Americans, 65 000 versus 30 000) but NZ > had a significant population size well before the European settlers turned > up. Depends on what you mean by significant. They were all immigrants from the South Sea Islands, a testimony to their great skill as sailors. -- Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZMSL
