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People |
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Parks |
Actors/Actresses
and Directors |
Nobel
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and Danes |
Heritage
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Places
of Interest |
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Writers
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The
people included here were either born in Britain, died in Britain,
became British citizens, became Prime Minister of Britain or ascended
the British throne. |
New Zealand |
Populated
by the Polynesian Maori people since
at least 1000 AD, the first European contact was in 1642 when the
Dutch explorer Abel Tasman sighted
the land.
Captain
James Cook
explored the islands in 1769 but unlike Australia the land was never
used as a penal colony and it was only after it was named a British
colony in 1840 that large-scale emigration from Europe began to take
place. This increased dramatically after the discovery of gold in
1861, an influx of people which lead to conflict between the settlers
and the native population.
Captain
James Cook
Captain
James Cook
Captain Cook Society
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Writers
and Poets |
The
short story writer Katherine Mansfield
was born as Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp in Wellington in 1888. Having
been educated in London she emigrated to England at the age of nineteen
to follow a career as a writer.
Katherine
Mansfield

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