Maori for New Zealand, the land of the long white cloud.

the original Maori name for NZ - "land of the long white cloud"

"Land of the Long White Cloud" (Maori name for the North Island of New Zealand)

The Long White Cloud, Maori name applied to N Z as a whole

Long white cloud ( Māori name for New Zealand)

Aotearoa (pronounced: ) is the most widely known and accepted Māori name for New Zealand.

Aotearoa is an overture written for orchestra by New Zealand composer Douglas Lilburn in 1940. The overture is one of three early works by Lilburn which center on the theme of national identity; the other two are 1944's Landfall in Unknown Seas, for narrator and orchestra, and the tone poem A Song of Islands of 1946. The title of the overture (Aotearoa) is taken from the Māori name for the islands.