Navigation and Voyagers

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    New Zealand

    New Zealand (Aotearoa)
    Kupe founded New Zealand in about the same time that the construction of the northern section of the Grand Canal of China begun. (1280-1290) He with a group of Maori cultured people and his wife (Kuramarotini) who actually named New Zealand (Aotearoa.)
    New Zealand was the last country found by Polynesians.