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The New Zealand design Wall Art is crafted from Rimu veneer board, these striking and beautifully simple wall panels portray iconic New Zealand imagery.

160mm x 288mm x 10mm

In 1642, people once thought that there must be a huge land mass in the southern hemisphere to balance the large continents of the northern hemisphere. The Dutch seafarer Abel Tasman was one of many sent out to find it. Instead, he reached the islands of New Zealand. He drew two charts, and in 1646 New Zealand was shown on a world map for the first time.

Nearly 130 years after Tasman, the English navigator James Cook set off in the Endeavour to look for the mythical southern land. He too reached New Zealand and sailed around it, making the first complete outline of its coasts. This proved that the country was not part of a larger land mass. Cook’s charts had only two major mistakes: he thought that Banks Peninsula was an island, and that Stewart Island was joined to the South Island.