land of the long white cloud

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New Zealand (probably a reference to the appearance of mountainous land when seen on the horizon from a canoe after an ocean voyage)
land of the long white cloud

    Hyphenation

    Land of the Long White cloud

    Turkish pronunciation

    länd ıv dhi lông hwayt klaud

    Pronunciation

    /ˈland əv ᴛʜē ˈlôɴɢ ˈhwīt ˈkloud/ /ˈlænd əv ðiː ˈlɔːŋ ˈhwaɪt ˈklaʊd/

    Etymology

    () From Maori Aotearoa (“long white cloud”), from ao (“cloud, daytime, world”), tea (“white”), and roa (“long, tall”). Allegedly the first English-language mention was in the February, 1916, New Zealand School Journal (King, 2004).
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