Geographicals

New Zealand

A group of islands in the southwest Pacific. Its capital is Wellington. It was discovered by the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman in 1642 and circumnavigated by Cook in 1769. Colonized in 1840 by the New Zealand Company, it became a British crown colony in 1840 until 1907 when colonial status was terminated. New Zealand is a partly anglicized form of the original Dutch name Nieuw Zeeland, new sea land, possibly with reference to the Dutch province of Zeeland. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p842 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p378)

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A group of islands in the southwest Pacific. Its capital is Wellington. It was discovered by the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman in 1642 and circumnavigated by Cook in 1769. Colonized in 1840 by the New Zealand Company, it became a British crown colony in 1840 until 1907 when colonial status was terminated. New Zealand is a partly anglicized form of the original Dutch name Nieuw Zeeland, new sea land, possibly with reference to the Dutch province of Zeeland. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p842 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p378)

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Indexed with the subheadings epidemiology, ethnology.

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Maori are Polynesians native to New Zealand; Australasia refers to Australia, New Zealand or both: check text

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  1. Z01w.639w.760w.747w
  2. Z01w.678w.100w.747w
  3. Z01w.678w.101w.747w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. New Zealand. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D009520. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D009520
  2. New Zealand. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand
  3. New Zealand. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q664