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In some traditional stories, Aotearoa was the name of the canoe of the explorer Kupe, and he named the land after it.
Kupe's wife ( in some versions, his daughter ) was watching the horizon and called " He ao!
He ao!
" (" a cloud!
a cloud !").
Other versions say the canoe was guided by a long white cloud in the course of the day and by a long bright cloud at night.
On arrival, the sign of land to Kupe ’ s crew was the long cloud hanging over it.
The cloud caught Kupe ’ s attention and he said “ Surely is a point of land ”.
Because of the cloud which greeted them, Kupe named the land Aotearoa.
Aotearoa can also be broken up as: aotea-roa.
Aotea is the name of one of the Māori migration canoes.
The first land sighted was accordingly named Aotea ( Cloud ), now Great Barrier Island.
When a much larger landmass was found beyond Aotea, it was called Aotea-roa ( Long Aotea ).
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