In some traditional stories, Aotearoa was the name of the canoe of the explorer Kupe, and he named the land after it.

The Socialist Unity party eventually suffererd its own split, with some members departing to found the modern Socialist Party of Aotearoa.

With some controversy, the team participated in the 2000 World Cup as Aotearoa Māori.

Since Stonehenge Aotearoa is at a different latitude and longitude than the original Stonehenge, it is not an exact replica — some measurements had to be changed to preserve certain astronomical properties.

At a time when youth unemployment in Aotearoa New Zealand is becoming severe, Te Wānanga o Aotearoa is introducing a range of new youth initiatives that will help rangatahi ( young people ) make the transition from an increasingly irrelevant secondary education system into the world of tertiary education.

On 1 May 2005, he became the first Indo-Fijian to be consecrated as an Anglican Bishop, the first ethnic Indian Bishop in the Province of Aotearoa, of which Fiji forms a part, and the first Bishop specifically assigned to Fiji's Western Division, when he was installed as Bishop of Viti Levu West.

In Paper Reclaim Ltd v Aotearoa International it was held that exemplary damages are not to be awarded in actions for breach of contract but the Court left open the possibility that exemplary damages might be available where the breach of contract is a tort.

In pre-colonial times Maori were thought to not have a commonly-used name for the whole New Zealand archipelago, but in the 19th century, ' Aotearoa ' was used to refer both to the whole country, and to the North Island only.

An early example of the former was the use of the word ' Aotearoa ' to mean New Zealand in the 1878 translation of The National Anthem by Judge Thomas H Smith of the Native Land Court, the translation still used today.

" Aotearoa / Land of the Long White Cloud " was the name of a song from New Zealand singer Jenny Morris ' seminal 1989 album, Shiver.

Until the early 20th Century, an alternative Māori name for the North Island was Aotearoa.

The statue was commissioned by members of the Thirty Thousand Club after the Anglican Bishop of Aotearoa, Frederick Augustus Bennett, related the legend of Pania to them.

Socialist Worker was also the name of an IST political group in Aotearoa / New Zealand.

The SWO evolved into Socialist Worker ( Aotearoa ) active in Auckland and Wellington, but was dissolved in 2012.

However, she is not the first Green Candidate to be elected under a first-past-the-post electoral system, as this was Jeanette Fitzsimons of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand in the Coromandel Electorate in 1999.

An 800-strong counter-demonstration was organised by the MultiCultural Aotearoa coalition as well as many anarchists to expose the sympathies of the National Front.

She was the co-leader of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand from 1995 to 2009, and was a Member of Parliament from 1996 to 2010.

Fonterra was also the subject of Greenpeace Aotearoa New Zealand protests off the Port of Tauranga on 16 September 2009 and Port Taranaki on 5 February 2011, where Greenpeace activists invaded ships carrying palm kernel animal feed, destined for dairy farms.

Between 1989 – 1991, Metiria was the Tumuaki o Te Iwi Maori Rawakore o Aotearoa and involved with Te Roopu Rawakore o Aotearoa.

She was a candidate for the McGillicuddy Serious Party in the 1993 election and for the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party in the 1996 election.

The Environment and Conservation Organisations of Aotearoa New Zealand ( ECO ) was formed in 1971 under the name of CoEnCo and changed its name to ECO in 1976.

In 2008, Rio Tinto Aluminium was declared the second worst transnational corporation in New Zealand, in the Roger Awards for the Worst Transnational Corporation Operating in Aotearoa / New Zealand.

In 1964, Te Matatini O Te Ra or in other words, the Aotearoa Traditional Māori Performing Arts Festival was founded, though the board did not actually schedule its first concert until 1972, with the express purpose of encouraging the development of Māori music.

In the Wellington City mayoral election, 2010, Prendergast was challenged by Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand city councillor Celia Wade-Brown for the Wellington mayoralty.

In 1994, Morris was a founding member of the Republican Movement of Aotearoa New Zealand, and supports a New Zealand republic.

The inaugural service from Auckland to Sydney on 30 April 1940 was flown by Aotearoa, one of its two Short S30 flying boats.

In a late 2010 article published on stuff. co. nz, Spirits Bay was named as one of the " Top 10 haunted spots in Aotearoa ", being suggested as possibly New Zealand's most famous spot for supernatural beings.

It is used by both Māori and non-Māori, and is becoming increasingly widespread in the bilingual names of national organisations, such as the National Library of New Zealand / Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa.

Also, William Pember Reeves used ' Aotearoa ' to mean New Zealand in his history of New Zealand published in 1898, titled The Long White Cloud Ao-tea-roa.

Te Wānanga o Aotearoa, founded in 1984, used The University of New Zealand as an English translation of its name, although it had no connection with the former University.

The police reportedly responded with pepper spray ( which in Victoria is not permitted to be used by police at demonstrations ), and Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand MP Nandor Tanczos reported that he and other protesters were victims of police brutality.

Hawaii is the apex of the Polynesian Triangle, a region of the Pacific Ocean anchored by three island groups: Hawaii, Rapa Nui ( Easter Island ), and Aotearoa ( New Zealand ).

* 2010: Aotearoa by Matt Wigdahl

In New Zealand ( Aotearoa ), which is officially bi-cultural, multiculturalism has been seen as a threat to Maori, and possibly an attempt by the New Zealand Government to undermine Maori demands for self determination.

Aotearoa (, commonly mispronounced by English speakers ) is the most widely known and accepted Māori name for New Zealand.

The Land of the Long White Cloud " Aotearoa " is a piece composed by Philip Sparke for brass band or wind band.

Aotearoa is an overture composed by Douglas Lilburn.

" Two Aotearoa Sketches for Bassoon and Piano " are two pieces composed by bassoonist Michael Burns.

* Aotearoa Māori-coached by Cameron Bell and captained by Tawera Nikau

Among the groups affected by such splits were those based in Germany, South Africa, Ireland, Zimbabwe, Australia, Aotearoa / New Zealand, Canada and France.

As an affiliated college, it is privately owned and is run independently from the university, being governed by The Council of Knox College and Salmond College, a body with links to the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand.

Just off the coast of Fourecks are the islands known as the Land of Fog or the Foggy Islands, home of the morporks ( a reference to the English translation of New Zealand's Māori name " Aotearoa ", the Land of the Long White Cloud ) and Purdeigh's Island ( or Purdeighsland ), discovered by the explorer Sir Roderick Purdeigh, who somehow missed the continent itself, in much the same way the Dutch sailor Tasman managed to do with Australia, but did get to have an island named after him.

The island is considered special by Māori ( the indigenous people of Aotearoa / New Zealand ) partly because of the presence of black obsidian, a volcanic glass created by the rapid cooling of silica-rich lava, prized as a cutting tool.

The Church of the Province of New Zealand also adopted its current name, the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia, to demonstrate its ownership by the three tikanga.

By 2001 the Aotearoa Cafe ( by that time now hosted on Aotearoalive ) became embroiled in cyber terrorism against the toymaker company LEGO, makers of the Bionicle series of toys.

Aotearoa Cafe was temporarily shut down as part of the October 2007 New Zealand anti-terror raids, and the webserver was confiscated by the NZ E-Crimes Unit to be later returned.