New Zealand

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New Zealand
In-Game Information
Location:	Australasia
Sublocations:	Hawke's Bay Reynard Residence Wellington
Real-Life Information
Appearances:	HITMAN 2

New Zealand (Māori: Aotearoa [aɔˈtɛaɾɔa]) is a country which is located in near Australia in the Tasman Sea. Its capital and biggest city (with around 210,00 inhabitants) is Wellington. Somewhere hidden at Hawke's Bay, lays the Reynard Residence, the place where Alma Reynard lives.

History

The first people to arrive in New Zealand were ancestors of the Māori. The first settlers probably arrived from Polynesia between 1200 and 1300 AD. They discovered New Zealand as they explored the Pacific, navigating by the ocean currents, winds and stars.

The first European to arrive in New Zealand was the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman in 1642. The name New Zealand comes from the Dutch ‘Nieuw Zeeland’, the name first given to us by a Dutch mapmaker. A surprisingly long time passed - 127 years, before New Zealand was visited by another European. The Englishman Captain James Cook arrived here in 1769 on the first of 3 voyages. By the 1830s, the British government was being pressured to reduce lawlessness in the country and to settle here before the French, who were considering New Zealand as a potential colony.

On 6 February 1840 at Waitangi, William Hobson — New Zealand’s first Governor invited assembled Māori chiefs to sign a treaty with the British Crown. The treaty was taken all around the country, as far south as Foveaux Strait, for signing by local chiefs. More than 500 chiefs signed the treaty that is now known as the Treaty of Waitangi.

1861, Settlers set up sheep farms on the extensive grasslands and Canterbury became the country’s wealthiest province. Gold was discovered in Otago and then on the West Coast, helping to make Dunedin New Zealand’s largest town. In the 1870s, the government helped thousands of British people start a new life in New Zealand. Railways were built and towns sprang up or expanded. In 1882, the first shipment of frozen meat from New Zealand made it successfully to England, proving that exporting chilled meat, butter and cheese was possible. New Zealand became a key supplier to Britain. With an economy based on agriculture, much of the forest that originally covered New Zealand was cleared for farmland.

Missions

HITMAN 2

• Nightcall
• The Politician