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That's what I find so fascinating about living in New Zealand. There are pubs in the Europe that are older than the first human settlements in New Zealand. Sean
by toomanybeersies 8y ago
That's what I find so fascinating about living in New Zealand. There are pubs in the Europe that are older than the first human settlements in New Zealand. Sean's Bar in Ireland dates back to 900 CE.
The first people to arrive in New Zealand, the Maori, arrived c. 1300 CE. New Zealand was the last major land mass to be settled by humans apart from Antarctica.
In 700 years, humans managed to destroy 2/3 of New Zealand's forest cover and drive to extinction the largest bird in existence (at the time) and also the largest eagle in existence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_Zealand_animals_extinct_in_the_Holocene https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_New_Zealand_animals_ex...