Danish New Zealanders

Danish New Zealanders
Total population
(Danish
1,986 (2013))
Languages
Religion
Related ethnic groups
Danes, Scandinavian New Zealanders, Norwegian New Zealanders, Swedish New Zealanders

Danish New Zealanders are New Zealanders with full or partial Danish ancestry. The majority of these people are part of the Danish diaspora.

History

There is a small Danish community in New Zealand, descended from a group of early settlers who came to clear thick North Island bush, in the middle years of the 19th century, and stayed to found settlements including Dannevirke and Norsewood. A former Prime Minister and high-ranking churchman from Denmark, Danish Prime Minister, Bishop Ditlev Gothard Monrad, settled in Karere near Palmerston North in the 1860s, and set up the first dairy plant in the region.[1][2] Monrad returned to Denmark after a stay of three years, but other members of his family stayed in New Zealand. He left behind his collection of art now housed at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Other Danes came to the Seventy Mile Bush area in 1872 and founded the town which retains the Danish name of Dannevirke, commemorating the Danevirke in Slesvig.[1][3] The other town created by the Danes was Norsewood.[1]

Notable Danish New Zealanders

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Kingdom of Denmark Bilateral Relations". New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Retrieved 2009-12-07.
  2. ↑ "Recent Publications" (PDF). New Zealand Religious History Newsletter. Religious History Association of Aotearoa New Zealand (20). October 2007.
  3. ↑ MacDonald, J.R. (2008) [1903]. Geography of New Zealand. BiblioBazaar. p. 94. ISBN 978-0-554-93730-4. Retrieved 2009-12-08. Dannevirke [...] in the Upper Manawatu basin [...] This town was originally a Danish settlement in the Seventy-mile B[u]sh [...]
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