Quote Originally Posted by Joshuatree View Post
Named after a Dutch province,ridiculous! So dumb and incongruous,embarrassing even,what an insult to all kiwis(no disrespect to the Dutch).
Aotearoa (land of the long white cloud)is so apt and correct. Tim Finn's great song"Aotearoa,rugged individual,glisten like a pearl,at the bottom of the world....) Says it all.
Read the Treaty of Waitangi, Maori version, and see what the actual Maori name for New Zealand is. It is NOT Aotearoa, but Nu Tirani. Aotearoa only applied to part of the North Island, and not the whole country.