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Image: Sāmoan Independence Day. 1 January 1962 (https://digitalnz.org/records/43538909/samoan-independence-day-1-january-1962) from Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga on DigitalNZ. CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/). Image cropped.

Decolonising the Pacific

Regional Resources

This entry will help you find the best websites and collections to explore the decolonisation of the Pacific, including Aotearoa New Zealand's continued inte...

Entry last updated: 14/05/24

Image: New Zealand Shipping Company offices, Gisborne (https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/photos/id/61862/rec/11) by Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 1643-10497. No known copyright. Image cropped.

Places of the East Coast

Regional Resources

Gisborne District Council is divided into the East Coast and Poverty Bay. Gisborne, Te Araroa, Ruatoria, and Waikohu are some of the historic towns in this r...

Entry last updated: 14/05/24

Image: Colombo Peterborough (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Colombo_Peterborough.jpg) by Schwede66 on Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en). Image cropped.

Canterbury earthquakes 2010–2011

Senior Secondary (Years 11 - 13)

At 4:35 am on 4 September 2010, an earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter Scale shook Christchurch west, in the Canterbury region causing damage to houses a...

Entry last updated: 11/09/25

Image: Arbeit Mach Frei gate Auschwitz 2012 (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Arbeit_Mach_Frei_gate_Auschwitz_2012.jpg) by Marcin Białek on Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en). Image cropped.

Senior Secondary (Years 11 - 13)

Holocaust (World War Two)

Holocaust is the name given to the systematic persecution and extermination of over six million Jews and others in Europe during World War Two. The plan for ...

Entry last updated: 10/07/25

Image: Nelson Mandela, 2000 (2) (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nelson_Mandela,_2000_(2).jpg) by Library of the London School of Economics and Political Science on Wikimedia Commons. No known copyright. Image cropped.

Nelson Mandela (1918–2013)

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was born on 18 July 1918, into the Madiba clan in the village of Mvezo, in the Eastern Cape of South Africa. He is best known for h...

Entry last updated: 11/09/25

Image: Waikeria Prison for WW1 objectors, c.1923 (https://digitalnz.org/records/37138011/waikeria-prison-for-ww1-objectors-c1923) from Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga on DigitalNZ. CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en). Image cropped.

Conscientious objectors

A conscientious objector (CO) is someone who is against using weapons to kill. CO's claim the right to refuse to be part of any kind of armed forces training...

Entry last updated: 14/04/26

Image: Displaced people try to return to northern Gaza Strip (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Displaced_people_try_to_return_to_northern_Gaza_Strip.jpg) by Ashraf Amra on Wikimedia Commons. CC by 3.0 IGO (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/igo/deed.en). Image cropped.

Refugees (worldwide)

People who have to leave their own country to find safety (refuge) somewhere else are refugees. Things like war, famine or climate change can result in peop...

Entry last updated: 20/05/26

Image: Gaziantep Achaeological Museum Poseidon mosaic Poseidon in 2007 0337b (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gaziantep_Achaeological_Museum_Poseidon_mosaic_Poseidon_in_2007_0337b.jpg) by Dosseman on Wikimedia Commons. CC by 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en). Image cropped.

Senior Primary (Years 5 - 8)

Myths and legends

Every culture has its own myths and legends. Legends are semi-true stories based on historical facts, events, and people. Myths are stories based on legends ...

Entry last updated: 15/06/26

Image: Kawarau Gorge. Otago NZ (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kawarau_Gorge._Otago_NZ.jpg) by Bernard Spragg. NZ on Wikimedia Commons. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en). Image cropped.

Rivers (New Zealand)

A river is a large stream of moving water that flows into an ocean, lake, or another river. New Zealand has more than 70 river systems. A river system includ...

Entry last updated: 10/07/25