new zealand

There are fourteen countries in Oceania: Australia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Micronesia, Vanuatu, Samoa, Kiribati, Tonga, Marshall Islands, Palau, Nauru, and Tuvalu. There are nine dependencies or territories: French Polynesia, New Caledonia, Guam, Northern Mariana...

1911: Johannes Bjelke Petersen is born in Dannevirke in the Hawkes Bay Region of New Zealand to a Lutheran Pastor father Carl and homemaker mother Maren 1913 (POD): Due to financial constraints and poor health the Bjelke Petersen family decide not to move to Australia with Carl Bjelke Petersen...

This is an interesting story, if somewhat light on the details of the world Mr. O'Brien created. Nonetheless, from the description it does sound at least somewhat alt-history, with recognizable historical figures (frequently with minor changes to their names) and, apparently portions of the...

The settlement of Maori in new Zealand is quite recent. What if Maori and other people never started a colony in new Zealand? could it possible that the islands remain completely uninhabited to this day? The distance and the difficult of settlement in a unknown and uninhabited land was...

Alright, something that has been in my head lately There's some TLs where Britain is invaded successfully and others where the british government is overthrow, usually resulting in the brits pulling a Portugal and moving to their american colonies with Kaiserreich's Dominion and Code Geass's...

With any pod after 1918, how can we have relations breakdown between Australia and New Zealand to the point where both countries are at war with each other in the late 30's or early 40's? Part of the challenge is that neither country had and actually fascist movement so are there any...

Historically, unlike other countries at the time, New Zealand never had an actual fascist party until the 60's when WWII was long over. The only far-right group existing at the time was the New Zealand legion, which even then believed in individualism unlike most fascist organizations. Starting...

While it is today much overlooked, according to the British Colonization of New Zealand and Colonization and Development of New Zealand, there was a semi-strong anti-dominion sentiment in New Zealand which was then used by ardent imperialists in the opposition to try and gain concessions from...

Inspired by @raharris1973 thread about a Prussian New Zealand, I'd like to brainstorrm ideas for a German New Zealand with you. Raharris has already laid much of the groundwork in their thread and I want to try to flesh this idea out a bit. According to the German Wikipedia page there had been...

If New Zealand had been colonized before 1000 BCE, could the civilization that developed there have independently developed metallurgy? NZ has plenty of mineral resources (including lots of copper and some tin) and active volcanoes; does anyone know how societies make this leap?

In the early 1990’s the Federation International Automobile’s (FIA) global touring car formula Group A was coming to an end, with spiraling costs and the failure of the World Touring Car Championship to last more then one season saw the auto-racing world to look to alternatives. The Australian...

The Maori King movement is a small effort today to get a Maori monarch for New Zealand. The idea though of a client, unified Maori monarchy ruling New Zealand )or just the North Island) under British "protection" dates to the first British resident minister to the archipelago James Busby...

Back in the early days of railroading across the British Empire, most railroads ran on separate gauges. However, efforts were eventually made to consolidate them all on one gauge. Typically the choice was between Cape (3ft 6in) and Standard (4ft 8.5in). But in all those cases where this was the...

For whatever reason, the CPC choose to invade Vietnam much earlier after Vietnam refuses to ally/effectively become a satellite. Instead of an ANZUS triggered war with North Vietnam, what if because of the aforementioned reason- the PLA took their place? Would the red 'domino effect' have much...

In 1985 covert members of the French DGSE snuck on to the vessel used by Greenpeace, the Rainbow Warrior, in protest against their nuclear testing and forcible relocation of 300 Marshall Islanders in French Polynesia, and planted limpet mines on its hull. The boat, which was docked in the...

What might New Zealand (or whatever it ended up being called) have been like if it had been colonized by a European country other than the United Kingdom?

So the basic premise is that moari are able too build a much a stronger population base then otl. One way i can see the happening is the earlier introduction of european food package

In 1835, some displaced Māori of the Ngāti Mutunga and Ngāti Tama iwi living in what is now Wellington invaded the Chatham Islands using a hijacked European ship. There, they began a genocide against the indigenous Moriori people. What if this didn't happen?

Is it possible, with a PoD after the signing of the Maori Declaration of Independence in 1835, for a native Maori kingdom, under a single head of state (as is advocated by the Maori King Movement), independent from British control (there is the possibility of a protectorate though), to form in...

I always wondered this. Canada, Australia, New Zealand and other that I can list are dominions and territories are associated with UK and recognized the British Monarch as their sovereign. However, most of them still have things, like Independence Days, and their own foreign affairs and...