The day Britain was discovered SECTIONS Last Updated: May 01, 2021, 12:27 PM IST Share iStock It was on that day in 1806 that Moehanga, a Maori travelling on an English whaling ship, landed in London, making him the first New Zealander to find the other island country. Related New Zealand knows how to poco — that is, to engage in ‘postcolonial’ conduct that’s neither anachronistically grating nor teeth-grindingly woke. From this year on, the former British colony marks April 27 as Moehanga Day, the day Aotearoa (Long White Cloud) — what the country’s original inhabitants call New Zealand in the Maori language — ‘discovered’ Britain.