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    A chilly reception

    Aug 07, 2022 4 minutes
    by YVONNE VAN DONGEN

    It was hardly surprising that a research paper which claimed Māori may have voyaged into Antarctic waters at least 1000 years before Europeans made headlines around the world last year. The explosive claim, published in the Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, meant Maori would have shattered the previous record set by a Russian ship in 1820.

    At the time, the report’s authors expressed surprise at the media attention, saying they did not intend to popularise what they saw as an imperial narrative of people discovering new land. Lead author Dr Priscilla Wehi said it wasn’t about which humans were in Antarctica first, but about “linkages that have gone on for many hundreds of years and

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