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The final six passengers - four Australians, one Briton and one New Zealander - and some crew members left the ship on Monday.

From BBC • May 12, 2026

The passengers -- four Australian citizens, one permanent resident in Australia and a New Zealander -- are to be kept at Western Australia's 500-bed Bullsbrook centre, originally built for the Covid-19 pandemic.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

But Everest, first scaled in 1953 by New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, was a far more formidable and dangerous beast.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

Right now, it feels as though the New Zealander has found more stable ground in reaching the semi-finals, but few are speaking with conviction.

From BBC • Mar. 4, 2026

In 1963, Roy Kerr, a New Zealander, found a set of solutions of the equations of general relativity that described rotating black holes.

From "A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays" by Stephen Hawking