1. (location) Great Barrier Island.

What is the Maori name for New Zealand?

Aotearoa (Māori: [aɔˈtɛaɾɔa]) is the current Māori name for New Zealand.

What was New Zealand first called?

Hendrik Brouwer proved that the South American land was a small island in 1643, and Dutch cartographers subsequently renamed Tasman's discovery Nova Zeelandia from Latin, after the Dutch province of Zeeland. This name was later anglicised to New Zealand.