This is the name given to New Zealand by the Maori explorers who came to the country six or seven hundred years ago.
In today's introductory programme, Bruce Stewart and Inia Te Wiata show something of the great variety and contrast of New Zealand geography. The early Maori settlers would not recognise their country today. The face of the country, its animal life, and vegetation have been transformed in the last hundred years. To this transformation New Zealand owes its prosperous farming industry and its high standard of life.