The Māori people are most likely descended from people who emigrated from Taiwan to Melanesia and then travelled east through to the Society Islands.

After a pause of 70 to 265 years, a new wave of exploration led to the discovery and settlement of New Zealand.

The Moriori population was all but wiped out between 18, largely because of Taranaki Māori invasion and enslavement in the 1830s, although European diseases also contributed.

In 1862 only 101 survived, and the last known full-blooded Moriori died in 1933.

New Zealand's capital city is Wellington, while its most populous city is Auckland.

Sometime between 12 CE, Polynesians settled in the islands that later were named New Zealand and developed a distinctive Māori culture.

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