The Best Cyprus Community

Skip to content


Is New Zealand Greek?

Feel free to talk about anything that you want.

Is New Zealand Greek?

Postby Paphitis » Fri Aug 28, 2015 3:30 am

Erolz seems to think so.

He believes the Polynesian Migrations slaughtered the Greek/Egyptian and Viking colonies which migrated to New Zealand at around 200AD

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6624320 ... first-book

User avatar
Paphitis
Leading Contributor
Leading Contributor
 
Posts: 32303
Joined: Sun May 21, 2006 2:06 pm

Re: Is New Zealand Greek?

Postby supporttheunderdog » Fri Aug 28, 2015 11:29 am

:D :D :D

You have to laugh - they all went there on a flying saucer - however so far the most obvious signs of pre-Maori long term settlement have not been found.
User avatar
supporttheunderdog
Main Contributor
Main Contributor
 
Posts: 8394
Joined: Thu Oct 28, 2010 3:03 pm
Location: limassol

Re: Is New Zealand Greek?

Postby Sotos » Fri Aug 28, 2015 12:05 pm

however so far the most obvious signs of pre-Maori long term settlement have not been found


I am clueless about NZ history, but a quick search tells me that the Maori settled there at about 1250AD! That seems way too late considering that NZ is quite big and that Australia and other nearby islands had been settled much earlier.
User avatar
Sotos
Leading Contributor
Leading Contributor
 
Posts: 11357
Joined: Wed Aug 17, 2005 2:50 am

Re: Is New Zealand Greek?

Postby supporttheunderdog » Fri Aug 28, 2015 4:22 pm

Sotos

Australia is not so isolated. Northern Australia is separated by the Torres Straits from the Papua New Guinea and they are only 150 Km (93 miles wide) part at the near points, with lots of Islands in between, Indeed upto 12000 years ago it is thought they were joined by a land bridge, with either similar land bridges or far smaller inter island water distances between the various Islands that run in chain to the Asian mainland, so for ancient man to have got to Australia would have been very easy - barring a few short hops dry feet nearly all the way.

The closest point from mainland Australia and Tasmania and New Zealand is approximately 1,500 kilometres (950 miles) or so. .

That is long way and it is likely why NZ was settled so much later. It is so far from anywhere. The Europeans who first landed there in the 17th C (Tasman) did so almost by mistake, looking a large continent thought to exist in the Southern Ocean.
User avatar
supporttheunderdog
Main Contributor
Main Contributor
 
Posts: 8394
Joined: Thu Oct 28, 2010 3:03 pm
Location: limassol

Re: Is New Zealand Greek?

Postby yialousa1971 » Fri Aug 28, 2015 8:53 pm

Paphitis wrote:Erolz seems to think so.

He believes the Polynesian Migrations slaughtered the Greek/Egyptian and Viking colonies which migrated to New Zealand at around 200AD

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6624320 ... first-book



Nice video, thanks Koala. :D
User avatar
yialousa1971
Main Contributor
Main Contributor
 
Posts: 6256
Joined: Sat Aug 30, 2008 2:55 pm
Location: With my friends on the Cyprus forum

Re: Is New Zealand Greek?

Postby yialousa1971 » Fri Aug 28, 2015 8:55 pm

OMGawd is that Bill C at 6mins 33 seconds in the video! :shock:
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.
User avatar
yialousa1971
Main Contributor
Main Contributor
 
Posts: 6256
Joined: Sat Aug 30, 2008 2:55 pm
Location: With my friends on the Cyprus forum

Re: Is New Zealand Greek?

Postby yialousa1971 » Fri Aug 28, 2015 9:08 pm

Hold on a minute I posted this way back in 2012. :twisted:

cyprus37562.html?hilit=ancient%20greeks%20in%20new%20zealand#p712571
User avatar
yialousa1971
Main Contributor
Main Contributor
 
Posts: 6256
Joined: Sat Aug 30, 2008 2:55 pm
Location: With my friends on the Cyprus forum

Re: Is New Zealand Greek?

Postby kurupetos » Fri Aug 28, 2015 10:12 pm

Don't be angry... it's just a koala... :mrgreen:
User avatar
kurupetos
Leading Contributor
Leading Contributor
 
Posts: 18855
Joined: Tue Jul 31, 2007 7:46 pm
Location: Cyprus

Re: Is New Zealand Greek?

Postby kurupetos » Fri Aug 28, 2015 10:13 pm

yialousa1971 wrote:OMGawd is that Bill C at 6mins 33 seconds in the video! :shock:

One of his ancestors... :shock: :mrgreen:
User avatar
kurupetos
Leading Contributor
Leading Contributor
 
Posts: 18855
Joined: Tue Jul 31, 2007 7:46 pm
Location: Cyprus

Re: Is New Zealand Greek?

Postby Paphitis » Sat Aug 29, 2015 12:33 am

yialousa1971 wrote:Hold on a minute I posted this way back in 2012. :twisted:

cyprus37562.html?hilit=ancient%20greeks%20in%20new%20zealand#p712571


Oh yeh that's right. Everyone was laughing at you if I recall correctly! :lol:
User avatar
Paphitis
Leading Contributor
Leading Contributor
 
Posts: 32303
Joined: Sun May 21, 2006 2:06 pm

Next

Return to General Chat

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 1 guest