Officially, the first white man to see New Zealand was the Dutch navigator Abel Tasman on 13 December 1642. But as you will discover in this video, whites got there 1800 years earlier.

This is the story of the whites who did not go to Europe. This is the branch of Whites who went to Persia (modern day Iran) and India. What happened to some of these whites?

This is the bizarre story of how they got to South America; Easter Island and finally, New Zealand.