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Scottish New Zealanders are New Zealanders of Scottish ancestry or who originate from Scotland.The number of New Zealanders who are descended from Scots is unknown, as the New Zealand census asks for ethnicity, not ancestry, and most have now assimilated; nonetheless, the vast majority of Pākehā, or European New Zealanders are of British and Irish descent, and it has been estimated that 1 ...
The Scottish diaspora consists of Scottish people who emigrated from Scotland and their descendants.The diaspora is concentrated in countries such as the United States, Canada, Australia, England, New Zealand, Ireland and to a lesser extent Argentina, Chile, and Brazil.
Robert Hogg (New Zealand politician) Linda Holloway; Alister Howden; James Howden (rugby union) Bill Hume (footballer) James Hume (superintendent) George Hunter (mayor) George Hunter (politician, born 1821) John Hutcheson; George Hutchison (New Zealand politician) William Hutchison (New Zealand politician)
Due to New Zealand's geographic isolation, several centuries passed before the next phase of settlement, that of Europeans. Only then did the original inhabitants need to distinguish themselves from the new arrivals, using the adjective "māori" which means "ordinary" or "indigenous" which later became a noun although the term New Zealand native was common until about 1890.
The Games were sports meets that brought together Scottish settlers and the wider New Zealand public. In so doing, the Games gave Scots a path to cultural integration as Scottish New Zealanders. [68] In the 1961 census there were 47,078 people living in New Zealand who were born in Scotland; in the 2013 census there were 25,953 in this category ...
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This is a list of placenames in Scotland which have subsequently been applied to parts of New Zealand by Scottish emigrants or explorers Main article: Scottish place names in other countries The South Island also contains the Strath-Taieri and the Ben Ohau Range of mountains, both combining Scots Gaelic and Māori origins, as does Glentaki , in ...
New Zealand portal; Scotland portal; Scottish-New Zealanders includes New Zealand people of Scottish birth or ancestry. (In accordance with Wikipedia:Categories, the applicability of the category should be based on a consensus that the connection to Scotland is important enough to include in the article text before this category can properly be considered.)