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So which ones are wrong...c'mon, sort me out. And by the way, I never mentioned Aetaroa...I'd never heard the word before you posted it, and I had to look it up.

Aotearoa - translation - 'land of the long white cloud'

We have two official languages too

We're prolly closer to canadian indian tribes than american - that's american trivia, not new zealand.

The tuitara's 'third eye' is vestigal, not a true eye.

The rainbow warrior was sunk when moored - not in territorial waters (term means something different here).

Athletic teams generally do not do the haka - that's a rugby thing mostly. Though it may be done at large events.

New zealand and argentina both have protectorates.

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu is the answer to itself? or Waipukarau? or Hawkes Bay? or the North Island/Te Ika-a-Māui? or New Zealand/Aotearoa? It's kinda confusing.

As for which trees we import - I wouldn't have a clue - if it were wood then spruce or fir, or something like that, but I've never seen a tree unloaded from a boat.

Aotearoa - translation - 'land of the long white cloud'
I thought that "The Land of the Long White Cloud" was a nickname. Hey, I've learned something new!

We're prolly closer to canadian indian tribes than american - that's american trivia, not new zealand.
I was told by a very officious looking chap in Hawaii that the aboriginal peoples of the Hawaiian islands had come from New Zeland many years ago. I can see similarities of appearance between Maoris and ethnic Hawaiians.

The rainbow warrior was sunk when moored - not in territorial waters (term means something different here).
Those waters are the territory of New Zealand, are they not?

Athletic teams generally do not do the haka - that's a rugby thing mostly. Though it may be done at large events.
I've seen ice hockey, basketball, netball, and polo teams preform the haka. I've also seen a team of age 10 to 12 year old ice hockey players from New Zealand do the haka is a podunk international hockey tournament, of no special significance other than that the team was from New Zealand.

New zealand and argentina both have protectorates.
My bad...I should have specified mainland, non-protectorate lands.

Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu is the answer to itself? or Waipukarau? or Hawkes Bay? or the North Island/Te Ika-a-Mui? or New Zealand/Aotearoa? It's kinda confusing. 'Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu' is the answer I sought. It's a low hill in the Southern Hawkes' Bay region of North Island. Although, since this is an unofficial name, I don't know if it counts or not. Once again, I am mistaken (serves me right for trying to be El Brainiaco about a country I've never visited). The longest official place name is the full, official name of Bangkok, Thailand (oh Shangri-La of SRS), which you'll understand if I don't record here, for sake of brevity.

As for which trees we import - I wouldn't have a clue - if it were wood then spruce or fir, or something like that, but I've never seen a tree unloaded from a boat.
Once more, I should have worded my query more precisely...in the 1950s and 60s, the New Zealand Firest Service was very interested in foreign evergreen tree species which would thrive in New Zealand's unique botanical conditions. To that end, tons of radiata pine seeds were imported from Canada and elsewhere

Ok - ancestral, Hawaii, yup.

We have terretorial waters, economic exclusion zones, and inland waters - it was in our territorial waters, fair enuff.

In this part of the world athletics means track and field - those others are field sports.

Taumata... as it's called for short is the official name (the full length version is, though Taumata is acceptable too).

The present tense for the trees threw me out - we learned to clone them and haven't had to import radiata for decades.

Actually, the Maori legends speak of their original homeland being called 'Hawaiiki'. A lot of evidence suggests that the Maori originated from what is now known as Hawaii.

The Kiwi football ("soccer") team also performed the Haka at the Beijing Olympic games in 2008. The teams that play in the Olympic are U23+3 (which means, all players but three are under 23 years old, that is, not in their prime yet).

mDNA evidence (as per Cavalli-Sforza) indicated that all Polynesian peoples comes from a common group of about 10,000 individuals who left the island now known as Taipei about 3000 BCE.

They split North and South. So the similarities between Hawaii and the NZ Maoris are likely derived from common ancestry, not that one came from the other.

The linguistic evidence suggests this pattern (-1500 = 1500 BCE; +500 = 500 CE):



Considering these migrations were done en masse using reed rafts, it must have been a sight to see, those 10,000 people, men, women and children, leaving Taipei in about three thousand rafts.

Some suggest they make it all the way to South America. The genetic evidence is not there, though.