{"id":32995,"date":"2021-06-11T14:37:55","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T05:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/11\/new-zealands-maori-may-have-been-first-to-discover-antarctica-study-suggests"},"modified":"2021-06-11T14:37:55","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T05:37:55","slug":"new-zealands-maori-may-have-been-first-to-discover-antarctica-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32995","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand\u2019s M\u0101ori may have been first to discover Antarctica, study suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oral histories suggest the Polynesian explorer Hui Te Rangiora travelled to the region in the seventh century <\/p>\n<p>M\u0101ori may have been the first to discover Antarctica, with connections to the icy continent and its surrounding oceans stretching back to the seventh century, researchers say.<\/p>\n<p>A new paper by University of Otago combines literature and oral histories, and concludes that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/m-ori\">M\u0101ori<\/a>, the indigenous people of Aotearoa New Zealand, were likely the first people to explore Antarctica\u2019s surrounding waters, and possibly the continent in the distance.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/11\/new-zealands-maori-may-have-been-first-to-discover-antarctica-study-suggests\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oral histories suggest the Polynesian explorer Hui Te Rangiora travelled to the region in the seventh century M\u0101ori may have been the first to discover Antarctica, with connections to the icy continent and its surrounding oceans stretching back to the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,897,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32996,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32995\/revisions\/32996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}