I muri i te ngaronga o te tekau ma toru Colonies i roto i te 1783, ka tahuri te kāwanatanga o Ingarangi ki te kitea he wāhi kē i muri i te ngaronga o te tekau ma toru Colonies i roto i te 1783, te rohe o Ahitereiria i kitea mo te Pākehā e te Dutch kairangahau Willem Janszoon i roto i 1606 a ka huaina New Holland e te Dutch East India Company, engari i reira ko kahore he ngana ki te colonize reira. I roto i 1770 James Cook kitea te rohe rawhiti o Ahitereiria i runga i te haerenga pūtaiao ki te South Pacific Ocean, keria te whenua mo Ingarangi, ka huaina te reira New South Wales. I roto i 1778, Joseph Banks Cook o, kairangahau tipu i runga i te haerenga, i whakaatu ki te kāwanatanga i runga i te tika o te Western Bay o Botany mo te noho whara, i roto i te Atlantic. I te tīmatanga o te rau tau 1840, i muri i te haerenga tuatahi o te kaipuke ki Ahitereiria, i haere tonu hoki ki te whakaturia i roto i te whenua i te nuinga o te ao, tae noa
6 o Hui-tanguru 1840