Hard New Zealand history word search
From Kupe and the waka hourua to Te Rauparaha, Parihaka and the Waitangi Tribunal. Twenty-eight names and events in an eighteen by eighteen grid, running in all eight directions, backwards included. For anyone who stops to read the plaque on an old building.
- Abel Tasman
- Beehive
- Captain Cook
- Endeavour
- Erebus
- Gallipoli
- Gold rush
- Hillary
- Hobson
- Hōne Heke
- Kate Sheppard
- Kupe
- Land march
- Musket wars
- Navigators
- Nuclear free
- Parihaka
- Rainbow Warrior
- Rātana
- Springbok tour
- Suffrage
- Tangiwai
- Te Puea
- Te Rauparaha
- Te Tiriti
- Waitangi Tribunal
- Waka hourua
- Whina Cooper
This is the same puzzle as on the printable sheet. Every word you find turns green and is crossed off the list.
Make your own versionNew Zealand history, extra hard
Name
| G | O | L | D | R | U | S | H | I | L | L | A | R | Y | G | E | R | U |
| R | F | E | T | A | M | S | R | O | T | A | G | I | V | A | N | O | F |
| A | A | R | R | U | O | T | K | O | B | G | N | I | R | P | S | I | K |
| N | E | N | D | E | A | V | O | U | R | K | D | I | B | N | E | R | A |
| A | U | S | G | A | L | L | I | P | O | L | I | P | M | U | H | R | T |
| T | P | H | U | N | O | S | B | O | H | N | G | F | E | C | G | A | E |
| A | E | E | N | B | S | G | C | W | G | C | A | I | E | L | F | W | S |
| R | T | F | C | U | E | N | T | F | N | F | H | P | S | E | G | W | H |
| L | A | N | U | B | I | R | T | I | G | N | A | T | I | A | W | O | E |
| N | A | M | S | A | T | L | E | B | A | G | R | N | T | R | S | B | P |
| E | A | A | T | H | C | R | A | M | D | N | A | L | A | F | U | N | P |
| O | K | P | O | I | P | T | S | F | K | U | P | E | N | R | F | I | A |
| V | A | G | W | A | K | A | H | O | U | R | U | A | G | E | F | A | R |
| C | H | T | E | T | I | R | I | T | I | I | A | T | I | E | R | R | D |
| E | I | A | M | U | S | K | E | T | W | A | R | S | W | P | A | T | O |
| G | R | E | I | H | O | N | E | H | E | K | E | G | A | A | G | R | K |
| A | A | T | E | V | I | H | E | E | B | F | T | I | I | D | E | N | I |
| G | P | W | H | I | N | A | C | O | O | P | E | R | M | I | V | I | L |
Find these words
- Abel Tasman
- Beehive
- Captain Cook
- Endeavour
- Erebus
- Gallipoli
- Gold rush
- Hillary
- Hobson
- Hōne Heke
- Kate Sheppard
- Kupe
- Land march
- Musket wars
- Navigators
- Nuclear free
- Parihaka
- Rainbow Warrior
- Rātana
- Springbok tour
- Suffrage
- Tangiwai
- Te Puea
- Te Rauparaha
- Te Tiriti
- Waitangi Tribunal
- Waka hourua
- Whina Cooper
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About this word search
Some of the biggest stories of Aotearoa are not always told at school. Hōne Heke cut down the flagstaff at Kororāreka more than once in the 1840s. At Parihaka in Taranaki, Te Whiti o Rongomai and Tohu Kākahi led peaceful resistance until troops invaded in 1881. Te Puea Hērangi led the building of Tūrangawaewae marae at Ngāruawāhia. The Waitangi Tribunal was set up in 1975 to hear claims under the Treaty, and the Springbok tour of 1981 split the country.
This grid is eighteen by eighteen and words run in all eight directions, so Kupe might appear backwards as EPUK. Waitangi Tribunal is the longest at sixteen letters, then Rainbow Warrior at fourteen and Springbok tour at thirteen. Rātana loses its macron as RATANA. Te Puea, Hobson and Erebus have six letters. The V only turns up in Navigators, Endeavour and Beehive, and the Y only in Hillary, which makes those good starting points.
For a history class or a long evening with older relatives. Each person picks one name or event they knew least about and finds out one fact to share at the next family dinner.
Ways to use this word search
With your coffee
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The same theme also exists in Spanish, French, German and Italian, each with its own word list in that language. Handy if you are learning a language: you already know the topic, now just the words.
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