New Zealand's True First European Explorer? The Untold Story of Juan Fernandez | Earth Tiger

In this historical exploration, we dive deep into the theory that Spanish explorer Juan Fernandez may have reached the shores of New Zealand in the 16th century-an entire century before Abel Tasman’s famous expedition.
We explore the evidence, including the intriguing 1500s iron helmet found in Wellington Harbor and its potential connection to Spanish voyages.
Is it possible that this journey, lost to time, was the first European contact with Aotearoa?
Narration by Kahura (@iamkahura)
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[@indigocrest]

there's a 500 year old pohutukawa tree in Spain which further proves this theory

[@jasoncallen8413]

Wow is there really??where?any photos online of it?I'm from NZ.

[@paulpaul4898]

Red Heads of New Zealand is an interesting three part series on You Tube as well

[@davidboyd8113]

The Spanish had dark hair it was the Celts that were here before the Spanish because they had blonde hair and that’s the only way you can get red hair

[@paulpaul4898]

@@davidboyd8113 ok, and?? not debating anything just saying it is interesting viewing. You do not need to try and convince me of anything. Thank you for your constructive comment 😁

[@jasoncallen8413]

Skeletons in the cupboard is the name of the documentary I think if I recall right,and yes it was great so much stuff we never learnt about in school about Maori origins and history

[@mikev4621]

Was the iron helmet that you showed here , a photo of the actual helmet found in Wellington harbour?

[@pitaberaciri8366]

When I was in school an high school in Australia I was always taught over an over that Captain Cook discovered Australia / New Zealand an helped them develop . As I got older an actually listened an dug into myself I realised our school system will only tell the English side there’s too many other ships from other countries which sailed to Australia / New Zealand centuries before Captain Cook arrived .

[@JJbrown3692]

Kia ora Te Ao.. hello to the world.. thanks for sharing some truth of our oral histories traditions,, even the Wakablondes and Moriori were here before us Maori.. with the same story of escaping war zones homelands and ends up here in Aotearoa..land of the long white clouds..

[@AndinoKiwi]

It's worth pointing out that the Spaniards also described the skin colour of the indigenous people of Chile as "fair," so, it wouldn't be strange for them to have called the Maori fair as well. Apart from European people, the Spaniards had probably seen the skin colour of the people from sub-Saharan Africa, which is a lot darker. In their view, native Chileans and Maori would have been fair in comparison. Also in the topic of skin colours, dismissing Mohitore's story about the Spanish ship around East Cape because the Maori said those people had white skin does not make much sense. Those dismissing that story seem to assume that those Spaniards either did not have white skin, or that those Maori folk did not see them as having white skin. And even though Spaniards tend to have a darker skin tone than most people of British origin (the most common origin of NZ-Europeans), light-skinned Spaniards are not rare. Also, compared to the skin colour of Maori, the Spaniards would have looked quite pale, which would explain why Mohitore referred to these visitors as fairy people.

[@Marc-bs1pt]

The Overwhelming majority of Spaniards are Naturally light-skinned (without Sun tanning) like the French people so... Also I have seen white Australians darker (because of sun tanning) than Arabs.

[@hinefamily7565]

Pity he did not map it like so many other explorers of the time. Wonder why ?

[@adriandabarber3996]

Maybe he did, maps got lost all the time. We are lucky to have the survivng ones around today, like mega lucky.

[@chrisharohau3031]

The Spanish have already explore all our Pacific islands right before British n others..😅😅😅😅

[@richardcaves3601]

@@chrisharohau3031 not so. The rutters, charts and other documents show SOME islands were found during Spain's age of exploration, but none mention NZ.

[@Tuituibird]

Interesting. It would be way more convincing if there are some records describing the tribe's physical features and traditions

[@xxragequiter_ytxx9412]

It's called olive skin..yet depending on how much sun our skin gets, if not enough sun or sun exposure, our skin can become lighter if too much sun we can become quite dark if there's a balance of no sun and sun, we stay an olive colour

[@captainsensiblejr.]

A white woman's skull, carbon-dated to 1700, was found on a Wairarapa river bank in the 1990s.😮

[@3Kiwiana]

Correct but of course suppressed

[@kenhorlor5674]

Fascinating.

[@3Kiwiana]

There are ancient Spanish artefacts here, but have been suppressed.

[@franushbloodaxe6408]

This clip looks like it has used Ron Wisemans books as a source.

[@thugiang9910]

So many hidden and mysterious stories about New Zealand ❤ it could be just a theory but fascinating and challenges our knowledge. Thank you guys

[@Fileunknownnn]

Great video guys keep it up!

[@Rustynail242]

Wow I've never even heard of this guy until now, I wonder why Spain never settled NZ?

[@LaurenceTarei-qj8ph]

Because we were too staunch and our people were too strong

[@monkeyjackmonkeyjack3779]

it was not worth the hassle and not enough return on investment

[@indigocrest]

the maoris mightve spooked them

[@zweed69]

@@LaurenceTarei-qj8ph not for the english they weren't 😂

[@owenanderson6126]

The English tried their hardest, we’re pulling out, the french caught ear the English we’re giving up and lined our shores waiting to have their crack, english whipped out te tiriti got us that way then never honoured it

[@mikev4621]

Would they bury a dead sailor in a harbour, or out at sea?

[@davidboyd8113]

The Celts were here before the Spanish and the Egyptians were here before them all hidden in plain sight

[@richardcaves3601]

Yeah right, and so were the fairies, the pixies, the elves, the hobgoblins, the orcs, the Vulcans, the Klingons, the andorians, the orians and many other alien extraterrestrials. They all went to that tiny wee island group at the bottom of the Pacific. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@davidboyd8113]

@@richardcaves3601 You don’t know much about Zelandia

[@richardcaves3601]

​@@davidboyd8113enough to know better than to repeat right wing bullshit about European travellers arriving in NZ before the Maori. FFS, try to educate people with evidence based history, not BS made up in the late 19th century.

[@davidboyd8113]

@@richardcaves3601 if there’s anybody since 1930 have been creating their own history it’s Māori Stone Age cannibals who traded in shrunken heads yeah that’s the sort of history I want to adopt

[@richardcaves3601]

@@davidboyd8113 that's selective history, and classified as false history. Try real history.

[@richardcaves3601]

Unfortunately for the makers of this, one Spanish helmet does not prove a visit. It might well have been an artifact brought to NZ anytime in the 19th or 29th centuries and lost/thrown overboard. There's absolutely zero archeological context for the find, so any stories about it are made up.

[@darrelhenley-mc9dw]

Paniora are maori Spanish mix northland and east cape the official story of this country is bullshit the Chinese were here in the 1400s as well and their have been people settled here for 3500 yrs

[@richardcaves3601]

@@darrelhenley-mc9dw try punctuation so we can all understand what you're saying. As regards your comments, where's your DNA evidence? Where's your physical evidence? There is none, because mythology is not history. History is what can be proven, and is reviewed after further evidence comes to light. To date there is zero evidence of any pre -Tasman European or Oriental arrival in NZ, other than the original Maori settlement. Mythology isn't history. Science is.

[@barrydelisle4453]

I knew that Fernandez was first

[@captainsensiblejr.]

Why show Viking and German WWI helmets when discussing Spanish helmet found in 1904 that dated to 1580s ?

[@darrelhenley-mc9dw]

No 750 ad waitaha from easter island

[@AllanWatts-jo1lc]

Many years ago We were taught at school that a Spanish ship's bell was found well above high tide mark . It was either Doubtful sound or Dusky Sound. I can't remember which. We were also taught that Leif Ericson was the first European to find America. Not columbus or Vespucci as was popularly believed then. Not all old knowledge is false nor should it be dismissed lightly just because it doesn't agree with modern opinons that are more distant away from the actual event.

[@AvinAshit26]

One of my family members was onr of the first Scottish people to live in Otago

[@NormanMacritchie-bv3ju]

Ancient Scottish Vikings with Norwegian captains come here 1100

[@NormanMacritchie-bv3ju]

Portuguese came here apparently Captain Cook used maps and charts Portuguesed maps and charts

[@watsonrangi6236]

Where did you get this from, cook job was making maps , he helped win Noth America with his maps he made his maps were so good next thing after cook was't till looking down from space

[@hally1655]

That has been debunked.

[@NormanMacritchie-bv3ju]

@@hally1655 no

[@NormanMacritchie-bv3ju]

@@hally1655 what I was taught about history about New Zealand the lot different today rewrite Maori history is a lot of bulshit

[@captainsensiblejr.]

The Maori were not light skinned, at all.

[@adriandabarber3996]

well compared to my Nigerian friends maori are basically white lol my african mates dont think maori are black at alllllllllllllllllllllllllll. So yeah not white but definitely not black, moderate brown? Also i have spanish mates that are darker than my maori friends. I thought this was common knowledge growing up here?

[@darrelhenley-mc9dw]

Read maori oral tradition they mention fair-skinned hair and eyes Look at Goldie painting how many have fair eyes

[@Marc-bs1pt]

@@adriandabarber3996The Overwhelming majority of Spaniards are Naturally light-skinned (without Sun tanning) like the French people so... is very rare that a Native European Spaniard is darker than a Native Maori LOL XD😂, but probably there a some (with extreme sun tan) because I have seen some white Australians darker (because of sun tanning) than Arabs.

[@whabio450]

lol

[@LaurenceTarei-qj8ph]

There was cross breeeding sone of us have spanian blood in us

[@Robostark]

Absolute drivel

[@EarthTigerNZ]

Thanks for watching

[@brianstewart9679]

No comment I could make could possibly do this video justice. It has to be seen to be not believed. Load of crap but the artwork was pretty!

[@EarthTigerNZ]

Thanks for watching

[@adriandabarber3996]

Hey, could you please pinpoint what the crap in here is so we can all learn? otherwise it may aswel be as true as any maori oral history that mostly has no scientific backup itself that we all have to play pretend as fact? Lets say, other than all the extreme bush and scrub burning, murder, rape, slavery, genocide, wiping out entire ancient species that roamed the land for a million years in less than a couple hundred and yet now somehow acting like protectors of the land?? like a bunch of liars!! all this we empirically can prove happened! They had to make up a saying called helicopter science to get people to stop pointing it out even though its true and recorded all over the world, So could you be a bit more clear tother than just calling it crap? be educational thanks. Tepapa has plenty of items that were not from maori that were found here, thats enough to at least realize others were here. If you cant get it then you sir are insane or a liar.