![]() ![]() The crew collected a bucket sample of the water. And, the entire ocean was significantly brighter than the night sky. Interviews with the crew, says Steven Miller (the report’s author), revealed Ganesha entered the glowing waters suddenly. When Ganesha’s crew heard about the satellite imagery, they reached out to confirm and share details of their personal encounter with this same event. Between late July and early September 2019, specialised low-light satellite sensors detected a possible bioluminescent milky sea south of Java, Indonesia, spanning >100,000 km2. The phenomenon is thought to be caused by luminous bacteria, but details of milky sea composition, structure, cause, and implications remain largely uncertain. Milky seas are massive swathes of uniformly and steadily glowing ocean seen at night. 2 This happy experiment paved the way for post-war Dutch migration.DNB imagery of the 2019 Java milky sea on 2 August 2019, showing a ∼100,000 km 2 swath of glowing ocean. They were described as ‘a fine type, of athletic build and well educated’. In 1939, five handpicked Dutch carpenters arrived. The Netherlands came to be seen as an alternative source of Aryan Europeans – ‘good Germanic genes but without the politics’. It made the then-radical suggestion that migrants from other countries should be accepted. Financial assistance was available to British migrants, but a 1938 report suggested that the supply might not be adequate. Racial ideology underpinned immigration policy in an Anglo-Saxon and Protestant society. Faced with a low birth rate and mounting skill and labour shortages, New Zealand increasingly looked to immigration to help shore up social and economic progress. The family name has now been perpetuated in his van Asch winery in Central Otago.īy the late 1920s, the growth of the European population was slowing. Hackett Bungy in the mid-1980s and took over the adventure sports business in 1997. His grandson Piet was one of New Zealand’s foremost aviation pioneers and a leading exponent of aerial mapping. Gerrit van Asch arrived in Christchurch in 1880 and set up the world’s first fully government-funded school for the deaf. The number of Dutch-born settlers dropped in the first half of the 20th century, despite the arrival of a few people connected with multinational companies and trading concerns.Īn example of how Dutch migrants have enriched New Zealand can be found in the van Asch family. For more than a century, a succession of priests attached to the Mill Hill Fathers, a prominent Catholic missionary order, came to work in remote Māori communities in the central and northern North Island. The contribution of Dutch churchmen has been long-lasting. Others, like Wellington’s first rabbi, Herman van Staveren, made their mark at the community level. But in the 1874 census, just 127 of the 300,000 settlers recorded were of Dutch birth – 112 men and 15 women.įamous figures among early settlers of Dutch origin include the landscape painter Petrus van der Velden and the gold seeker and later prime minister Julius Vogel, who had a Dutch father. Some had professions associated with the sea, or were drawn to the colony by the 1860s gold rushes. Most of the quarter-million who left the Netherlands (unofficially known as Holland) between 18 headed westwards, chiefly to the United States.Ī few Dutch people may have settled in New Zealand before the middle of the 19th century. Some speculate that the misfortune of Tasman’s crew led to a national reluctance for a second entrance into New Zealand. ![]() Netherlanders were one strand in the knot of continental Europeans settling in New Zealand from the 1840s. Tasman Glacier and the Tasman Sea are other reminders of this explorer’s long and enduring reach. Three hundred years after Tasman’s tragic encounter with Māori, land near where he anchored was renamed Abel Tasman National Park. A Dutch mapmaker later christened the new lands Nieuw Zeeland (after the coastal province of Zeeland in the Netherlands), stamping a Dutch imprint on the national story. Four of his crew were killed in a confrontation with the Ngāti Tūmatakōkiri tribe, and Tasman left, naming the area Murderers' Bay. After charting some of the coast, Tasman anchored in the sheltered waters of what is now Golden Bay. On 13 December he recorded his first glimpse of a ‘groot hooch verheven landt’ – ‘large land, uplifted high’ – the Southern Alps. Captaining two vessels from the Dutch East India Company’s base in Java, Abel Tasman ventured south in search of fabled riches and fresh land for expansion. In 1642 the members of a Dutch expedition became the first Europeans known to have sighted New Zealand.
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