NZ Migration (up to 2000) By facebooker_10219138578518064 1280 Eastern Polynesian peoples arrive in NZ (Early Māori) 1642 Dutch explorer Abel Tasman ‘discovers’ NZ 1769 James Cook makes his first visit to NZ on the Endeavour 1806 The first European Women arrive in NZ 1814 Samuel Marsden, a British missionary arrives in the Bay of Islands 1839 The New Zealand Company (England) comes to buy land for settlement 1840 Settlers from England arrive aboard Aurora, Port Nicholson, Wellington 1848 Settlers from Scotland arrive in Dunedin 1850 English settlers arrive in Canterbury 1862 Settlers from England and Ireland, coming for the gold rushes 1870 Settlers from China, Germany and Scandinavia come 1900 Dalmatian settlers arrive from an area now called Croatia 1935 Jewish refugees come from Central Europe (Germany, Austria) 1940 Refugees from Poland begin to arrive, fleeing World War 2 1947 Immigrants from Greece, Italy, Poland, former Yugoslavia 1950 Skilled Dutch migrants come about this time from the Netherlands 1965 Pacific migrants begin to come (including Fiji, Samoa, Cook Islands) 1973 Migrants arrive from Britain, Europe and North America 1975 Boat people arrive from Vietnam, escaping the war 1980 Some Cambodian refugees arrive, fleeing atrocities in their country 1990 Business people from China, Hong Kong and Taiwan begin to arrive 2000 More Migrants from Britain, and some from South Africa arrive