Background: The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year, the British began the first organized colonial settlement. A series of land wars between 1843 and 1872 ended with the defeat of the native peoples. The British colony of New Zealand became an independent dominion in 1907 and supported the UK militarily in both World Wars. New Zealand's full participation in a number of defense alliances lapsed by the 1980s. In recent years, the government has sought to address longstanding Maori grievances.
May 13th 2008Oceania » New Zealand » North Island I arrived in Auckland at a stupidly early hour and was not in the best of moods having realised that I had left my MP3 on the plane. Very irritating as I had just put all my music on it, but hey these ... 4 photos[full story]
May 13th 2008Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Whangarei this morning to physio after that morning coffee at the information centre.
next as it is a lovely sunny day we walked along the river at raumanga.
just to prove we where there here the photo s. ... 3 photos[full story]
May 12th 2008Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Rotorua Nach meinem Extremadrenalinerlebnis vom Vortag, war ich auf den Geschmack gekommen und beschloss, nochmal was sportliches zu unternehmen. Etwas, das pur Kiwi ist. Nein, nicht Bungy-Jumping, das reizt ... 3 photos[full story]
May 11th 2008Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Taupo Ich hatte mich schon im Vorfeld zur Nervenberuhigung mal ein bisschen bei travelblog.org umgeschaut und ich bin bei Gott nicht der Erste, der ueber dieses Erlebnis schreibt, aber trotzdem, ich bin sow ... 11 photos[full story]
May 12th 2008Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Taupo Nach einer Woche recht beschaulichen Reisens beschlossen Ann und ich, dass ein bisschen Adrenalin nun langsam angebracht waere. Da das Wetter in Taupo am Freitag im wahrsten Sinne des Wortes schauerli ... 5 photos[full story]
May 12th 2008Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Whangarei a lovely sunny day. we had morning coffee with girl guide biscuits!! we did a lot of gardening.
mainly the vegetable plot. george is mending the rotaryhoe. not working as yet. ... 1 photos[full story]
April 22nd 2008Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Auckland » North Shore I recently took 2 trips back to New Zealand for Ida & Mark’s, Robyn & Greg’s and Nicky & Quentin’s weddings. The first trip was to attend Ida & Mark’s wedding in February, I ar ... [full story]
May 8th 2008Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Auckland no breakfast this morning. slept in til about 10:30 then packed for the coromandel. managed to get locked out of my room in nothing but my towel. got lucky in calling around for Emma and she came back ... [full story]
May 7th 2008Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Auckland breakfast this morning at 8am then off to my anthro lecture. booked it to my inverts lab and dissected molluscs with Sarah. felt kind of bad for the little guys as they were still pretty much alive, b ... [full story]
May 6th 2008Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Auckland breakfast this morning at 8am then back to sleep for about an hour then off to anthro tutorial. between classes I managed to fill out about 4 scholarships through Fast Web in the basement of the bio b ... [full story]
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