Portuguese New Zealanders are either

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who migrated to New Zealand, or New Zealanders of Portuguese descent. According to the latest 2018 New Zealand census, 447 residents of the country declared

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to be the place of their birth, and it is estimated that Portuguese migrants and their descendants number approximately 1,365, up from 900 in 2006, and 1000 in 1996. On 22 April 2010, Portuguese New Zealanders were recognised by the Office of Ethnic Affairs as an official community of New Zealand, having tied the 70th ribbon to Parliament's mooring stone on the Parliament House Galleria. The Portuguese Embassy in

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, Australia is accredited to New Zealand, while there are two honorary Portuguese consulates in New Zealand, one in

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and the other in

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, both of which operate through the Portuguese Consulate-General in Sydney. As well as having been recognised as an official community, the Portuguese in New Zealand hold several annual meetings and celebrations such as

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, and are organised through a friendship association.

History

In the 19th and early 20th centuries there were more Portuguese than Spaniards in New Zealand. This was probably a reflection in part of the close commercial links between Portugal and England. Portuguese were recorded amongst New Zealand's early colonists, one

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family has a Portuguese whaler in its whakapapa (genealogical chart), Auckland singer Bill Worsfold claims to be the descendant of this whaler, and wrote a ballad about his tough life and arrival in New Zealand. Other arrivals included António Rodrigues who migrated from the island of

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with his wife in the 19th Century and eventually settled in

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where he built the "Madeira Pub Hotel", which is still in activity. Another early settler was Francisco Rodrigues Figueira, also from Madeira who owned a prison labour gum-digger's camp in West Auckland in the late 19th century. Known as "Don Buck", Figueira was a colourful and violent character and he is remembered in such west Auckland placenames as Don Buck Road, Don Buck Primary School, and Don Buck Corner Reserve.Francisco Rodrigues Figueira
TeAra Biographies, New Zealand Government In the mid-20th century, Portuguese migration to New Zealand nearly stagnated with only 12 Portugal-born migrants being registered in the 1951 census, but the Portuguese diaspora gained a new momentum in the 1960s, and later after the

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when the number of Portuguese migrants to New Zealand rose even further. Portuguese-born Dutch photographer,

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, was the only victim of the

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in the port of Auckland. On 10 July 1985, two French

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agents bombed the Rainbow Warrior,

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's flagship, which was scheduled to depart New Zealand to disrupt nuclear testing in

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. This was to date the only foreign attack on New Zealand's soil. Today, the Portuguese are part of an even larger

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community in New Zealand, that also includes Brazilians, East Timorese, Macanese and

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. Despite constituting 0.03% of New Zealand's population, some 0.22% of New Zealanders speak Portuguese according to the latest Census.

Portuguese New Zealanders

References

External links

Consulate General of Portugal, Sydney
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History

Portuguese New Zealanders

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References

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