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Gisborne is a city situated on the East Coast of New Zealand's North Island that is generally known for being 'the first to see the light'.

It's original name was Turanganui-a-Kiwa (the standing place of Kiwa) who is a well-known Polynesian ancestor to the local iwi (tribes). But this changed with the arrival of European colonists who after the New Zealand Wars (1843-1872) renamed it after William Gisborne, who was colonial secretary of New Zealand before returning home to his European homeland ([United Kingdom]).

[One] who is not prejudice will find it amazing that they would name the region after a foreigner who has no historical significance to the region nor to the indigenous people.

The local Maori tribes of Gisborne are Te Aitanga a Mahaki, Rongowhakaata and Ngai Tamanuhiri with [neighboring] tribes such as Ngai Tuhoe, Ngati Kahungunu, Ngati Rongomaiwahine, Te Aitanga a Hauiti and Ngati Porou.
It is populated by indigenous Maori who are commonly stereotyped as pot-smoking, dole bludgers and whites (Europeans/Pakeha) population who are almost completely ignorant of the region's history (with the exception of [Captain James] Cook's arrival in 1769 and a treaty signed at Waitangi in 1840).

A lovely place if ignorant but horrible if [historically] accurate.

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