New Zealand http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/MESH/D009520 http://purl.bioontology.org/ontology/SNOMEDCT/223625001 http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C16914 https://gynopedia.org/New_Zealand A country in the Pacific, comprised of islands in the South Pacific Ocean, southeast of Australia. A group of islands in the southwest Pacific. Its capital is Wellington. It was discovered by the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman in 1642 and circumnavigated by Cook in 1769. Colonized in 1840 by the New Zealand Company, it became a British crown colony in 1840 until 1907 when colonial status was terminated. New Zealand is a partly anglicized form of the original Dutch name Nieuw Zeeland, new sea land, possibly with reference to the Dutch province of Zeeland. Australia and New Zealand New Zealander Australasia country glbtq Encyclopedia Project The Greenwood Encyclopedia of LGBT Issues Worldwide, Vol. 1