I`d like to see a Dutch Northern Island and maybe even German Southern Island.
Or Danish NZ would be also really cool.
It'd be cool to see it being German, but that'd be a bit ridiculous.
Believe me or not, it isnt that hard:
The Dutch are more active in Australia because they get interested in it when Tasman discovers it and in the 17 and 18th century they slowly set up towns in Australia and later mainly *New South Wales (like they did IOTL Cape Colony), first because of food but later they also find other minerals in Australia. Because of trade and Magellan somewhere in the 18th century several ships depart from Dutch Australia to Peru or Chile to trade however due to a storm they shipwreck in New Zealand. It takes several years before they are able to repair their ship and they go back, but some have to stay behind (ot enough room/supplies). The Dutch later come back (and they finally realised it is New Zealand, earlier sightend by Tasman) only to find their freinds being killed by Maoris. The Dutch get mad and invade (repeating the Jan Pieterszoon Coen story, Google him) to go after the Maori. Of course they win with their superior arms but they also find some interesting stuff and even some gold. Slowly the colonies grow and grow and get more immigrants from Europe.
POD to make it German: for colonisation the Dutch almost never used real 'Hollanders' they only went into administration. No, farmers from Eastern Netherlands and Rhineland were used to for the real 'colonisation'. IOTL in both New Netherlands and The Cape these Germans assilimated into the Dutch, but what if we could pull a Czech way (so many immigrants the locals assilimate into the immigrants)? Well New Zeland has a goldrush and so many Germans go there they actually assilimate the Dutch into German, which isnt that hard because of similair cultures.
And that's how you get a German New Zealand. I imagine it it has about 8 million people, most of Western European heritage (largely German and Dutch, but also Scandinavians and Czechs/Poles) both equally distributed on both islands (unlike OTL) and about 65% urban society (10% lower than OTL) because of its adventurer/farmer origin. About 1 million of those people are of various Asian origin, so Polynesians and Indonesians, but mostly Vietnamese, Filippino and many, many Chinese. The Maori, because of the Dutch aggression war, had lost almost all their males and so the women intermarried with Whites. Unlike OTL they most likely almost completly vanished and assilimated (both culturally and ethnically) into White society, like OTL Natives americans in the USA...
Okay it wasnt
that easy to get a German New Zealand but it isnt utterly implausible either
