"On
the other side of the said island, toward the south, there are some other races,
who navigate by the [Southern Cross and] beyond the said island the day does not
last more than four hours, and that there it was colder than any other part of
the world."
Ludivoci Barthema, 1508.
The
Phoenicians c 666BC
The
early Phoenician navigators, Africa, Necho, America, Brazil, coin map, rock carvings
at Tauhara
Mauryans
c 240BC
Rats, "Nature", Richard Holdaway, Mauryan Empire, Ashoka
Ptolemaic
Greeks c 180BC
Ptolemy
map, Taprobana, Australia, Bona Fortuna
The
Celts c300
Govt
suppression? Stonehenge, burial sites, caves, stone houses, Celts, Scotland, Waipoua
Forest, Puniho Stone, Taine
Ruaridh Mhor,Rory and Ruaridh
The
Arabs c 790
Sheemoah, moa, Al-Idrisi, Sinbad,
Jaubert, Hamilton, Museum of NZ, Abharah, Valley of Serpents, rocs,NZ eagle, Tamahere,
stonebird,Korotangi, Sulawesi, Java, Al-Rishid, Varthema, aborigines, Aotea Harbour,Pakoka,
Waitomo, dhow, Mt Tuahara
Waitaha
c 850
Sutton,
Ruka, Rangimarie Te Maiharoa, Maeroero, Pouto Ki Rongo Maraeroa, Barry Brailsford,
Wallace Black Elk, Easter Island, Kaimanawa , Maui, Kiwa, Hotu Matua, Matua, Urukehu,
Kiritea
Tamils
c 1170
William
Colenso, Northland, Tamil Bell, Mukiayaten, Tamil, Chola, Bishop of Dornakal,
Doctor Rasanathan, Al-Idrisi, Dausset Team World Survey, Taupo, cremation
Zheng He 15thc
Chinese explorers
The
Portugese 1522
Early
European maps, Terra Australis, Descelier, the Dauphin map, Antartica, Great Java,
Queensland, NZ East Coast, Mendonça, Magellan, Eanes, mahogany wreck, du
Fresne, Bay of Islands, Auckland, Waitaki River, Takiroa, Duntroon rock drawing,
le Testu, La Joncade
The
Spanish 1576
Wellington Harbour, Spanish
helmet, Tower of London, Museum of NZ, DSIR, Fernandez, Cook, Tairooa, Amanu,
Concepcion, Easter Island, de Solis, Mercador,Cortez, Arias Memorial
Credits: "Pre-Tasman Explorers" Ross Wiseman and other diverse public-domain Web resources
NZ is full of Historic Anomalies
