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WERCS Agency | New Zealand Import & Export

Terminology and meaning:

Kiwi

  • A colloquial term to refer to people from NZ “a kiwi”

  • Is derived from the indigenous people’s language (Te Reo Māori) name for the national bird “the Kiwi”

Whenua

  • Māori translation for land, country or ground. And all it encompasses, including our connection to it physically, spiritually etc.

Aotearoa

  • Māori name for New Zealand, commonly translated as “land of the long white cloud”.

Kia Ora

  • A Māori greeting that acknowledges your physical and spiritual state of being.