Discovery of New Zealand

  • 2980 BCE

    Trading time!!!!

    Spices, Boats etc
  • 1480 BCE

    Started to explore the Pacific Ocean

    About 1480 BC. And also when the egyptians were building the pyraminds.
  • 1480 BCE

    Started from South-East Asia

    Left Indonesia probably because volcano. Volcano = crop failure. Crop failure = fighting over food.
  • 980 BCE

    Fiji

    Fiji
    Fiji was the first island the polynesians found
  • 970 BCE

    Tonga

    Tonga
    Discovered Tonga
    Probably around 980 bc
    Second island to be found
  • 820

    Samoa

    Samoa
    Third island to be discovered in the Pacific Ocean
  • 820

    Hawaii

    Hawaii
    Found around the same time as Samoa
  • 870

    Rarotonga

    Rarotonga
    Fourth island found. Found around: 1150
  • 920

    Tahiti

    Tahiti
    Fourth island to be found
  • 1220

    Rapa Nui/Easter Island

    Rapa Nui/Easter Island
    Seventh island to be found.
    Easter island as the Moai statues
  • 1280

    New Zealand

    New Zealand
    Kupe found some of the only land that hasn't been discovered
  • Captain Cook comes to NZ

    Captain come to NZ with the help of a navigator
  • Captain Cook gets killed

    Captain gets killed in Hawaii
  • Whalers & Sealers

    They were the first settlers in NZ. They wanted the blubber, whale oil and meat
  • Early Settlers

    Arrived arfter the whalers & sealers and made a settlement
  • Treaty of Waitangi

    Treaty of Waitangi
    This treaty wasn't signed by all the Maori chiefs.