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New Zealand was first discovered by a European in 1642 by Tasman, and the coast was explored by Captain Cook in 1769; in subsequent years it became a resort for whalers and traders, chiefly from Australia. By the Treaty of Waitangi, in 1840, between Governor William Hobson and the representatives of the Maori race, the Maori chiefs ceded the sovereignty to the British Crown and the islands became a British colony.

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  1. The Royal Historical Society, UK

    S. H. Steinberg Ph.D. (Fellow)

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Steinberg, S.H. (1955). New Zealand. In: Steinberg, S.H. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman's Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270848_28

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