Latter-day prophets have said that Hagoth’s people settled on the islands that are now known as New Zealand.
In the dedicatory prayer for the Hamilton New Zealand Temple, President David O. McKay (1873–1970) said:
“We express gratitude that to these fertile Islands Thou didst guide descendants of Father Lehi, and hast enabled them to prosper” (David O. McKay, “Dedicatory Prayer Delivered by Pres. McKay at New Zealand Temple,” Church News, May 10, 1958, 2).
“It is reasonable to conclude that Hagoth and his associates were about nineteen centuries on the islands, from about 55 BC to 1854 before the gospel began to reach them. They had lost all the plain and precious things which the Savior brought to the earth, for they were likely on the islands when the Christ was born in Jerusalem” (Spencer W. Kimball, in Conference Report, New Zealand Area Conference 1976, 3).