Robin Forlonge Patterson · @RFPatterson
60 followers · 593 posts · Server mastodon.nz@KiffinEileen The idea that S Percy Smith made up the names "#Kupe" and "Aotearoa" is not what #historian Stephen King believed, but at least King used the standard spelling (and Smith's first initial) while agreeing (at pages 39-42 of the #Penguin #History of New Zealand) that #Aotearoa was not the original native name for #NZ. #Polynesians named islands, not groups of them.
#kupe #historian #penguin #history #aotearoa #nz #polynesians
Draft Excluder · @draftexcluder
17 followers · 52 posts · Server mastodon.nz
I've always loved this cartoon.
Credit to: https://www.instagram.com/3palec_/?hl=en
#captaincook #jamescook #kupe #abeltasman #cartoon #3palec