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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.




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By LCinNZ
October 18th 2008
week 4 Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Auckland » Waitakere Ranges
cant believe already had a month here!!!!!!!!!!!! SUN - went to rangitoto island with fellow vols :) was brilliant, tis the most recent erupted volocano of them all in North Island. Was beautiful, massive Pohutakawa forest on the lava fields (some bits a lil like iceland), stunning weather aswell - little hellish though as we marched full speed to the summit (did an hours advised walk in 40 mins!!) dripping with sweat...lurvly :) worth it when we got to the top though :) amazing views of auckland and surrounding areas. knackered my hip doing this though...not so good, hardcore limping now [View Full Entry]

LCinNZ - Lisa Critchley | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: October 18th 2008 | 71 Views | [diary=335655]

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JACK HAD FUN!!! He just threw on his tight jeans and t-shirt, grabbed his glow sticks and danced the night away... kind of. No, he did dance, though. It was great! There is this style of dancing from Australia that is all this fancy footwork like they are walking in place. It's hard to describe, but it was really cool. Some of the people at the club were really talented. It was nice to see Auckland on a Saturday night, too. Sunday morning I volunteered to play on Steff's soccer team since they were short players. Jessica, I thought of you [View Full Entry]

JackLindsay - Jack & Lindsay Zweber | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: June 9th 2008 | 58 Views | [diary=285269]

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I have to appologize for the list we made! That must have been a fun post to read, right Bobbi? When we had typed it up it was in columns and A LOT easier to understand. So, we had a column for the item, then a column for NZ and a column for the USA. So in the States a "fanny" is a butt, while here it means a female reproductive organ in more slang terms. Older generations here would be offended if I were talking about fanny packs. Haha, so no more lists until we can get the formatting right. [View Full Entry]

JackLindsay - Jack & Lindsay Zweber | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: June 7th 2008 | 58 Views | [diary=284588]


Wow, we have had anamazing two days! The last time we posted, we did wind up finding that beach! It's called Piha, and it's not too far at all from the house. We climbed a giant bluff called Lion Rock, played with other peoples' dogs, watched surfers, found a cave, found an even bigger bluff, got sprayed by massive 20 foot waves, I screamed, took a bunch of pictures, and climbed a sand dune! We have pictures of the whole day, but since I can't get internet access from my own laptop, I can't post them yet. Soon, though, I promise! [View Full Entry]

JackLindsay - Jack & Lindsay Zweber | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: June 6th 2008 | 67 Views | [diary=284242]

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It wouldn't be a normal weekend for us here in Auckland if we weren't treated to a day out with our surrogate mum, Liz, and her hubby Allard. Today we took off to the Waitakere Ranges, one of Auckland's Regional Parks located in the mountains on the rugged west coast. Just a hour's drive out of the city, it is an area of lush tropical rainforest with some the greenest, most picturesque scenery we've seen since we arrived. Expertly following his nose rather than the map, Allard wound us around hairpin bends and through pretty little townships with houses hidden away [View Full Entry]

Inspirado - Jude & Glynn Harris | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: January 29th 2008 | 90 Views | [diary=240195]

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So we have not updated our blog for the past few days. We left the Bay of Islands to mixed weather, so we decided to just eat up the journey, as we would be charged extra for the van if it was late!! We stopped briefly at a gorgeous beach, only for Graham to almost to lose his trainer in some sinking sand. We arrived back at R & N's and quickly empted the van, before scooting up the road with just minutes to spare at the rental firm. On christmas eve, we actually did our first of christmas shopping in [View Full Entry]

Cat and Big G - Catriona Reekie | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: December 24th 2007 | 90 Views | [diary=230123]

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After much anticipation, Melissa's Mom FINALLY arrived for her visit. Her and Gary arrived at a very early 6 AM on a Saturday morning...but we didn't mind at all. We spent the morning catching up and having breakfast. They were very excited to see our new place and the life we have been building for ourselves. Around lunchtime we went out to take them on a tour of the city. We walked along Queen Street and showed them Melissa's bank. Then we went up the Auckland Sky Tower for some great views of the city. We got to see someone that [View Full Entry]

Kickinitkiwi - Melissa & Dennis | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: March 11th 2007 | 96 Views | [diary=136844]

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I MADE IT TO NEW ZEALAND!!!! One of my long time, dearly held and most important dreams has finally been fulfilled! I am soooo happy! Had a very long journey from Bali to NZ via Sydney. It was an overnight flight and of course I didn't sleep, so by the time we landed in Sydney I was on one of those jet lagged, over tired, crazy highs you get LOL...I sent about a million hyper active emails from Sydney to various people telling them I was in Sydney International Airport! Crazy...However on the flight into Sydney I did get to see [View Full Entry]

Elanor - Elanor Young | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: November 21st 2006 | 230 Views | [diary=104735]

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Last night we camped on the beach at Piha and watched the sunset over the sands and islands. Today we went Cayoning at Piha (Shelley says "sorry" to Anna) and get absoluletly drenched! We abseiled down four waterfalls including a 50m pitch. We had to jump into lots of deep pools and swim back out, and crawl under huge boulders, gradually working our way downstream. The water was freezing! A great day with a bunch of really friendly travellers and guides. In the evening we set off driving to Rotorau. [View Full Entry]

PhilAndShell - Phil and Shelley Walker | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: November 16th 2006 | 116 Views | [diary=103478]

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After quite a rocky boat journey, we arrived in Wellington on the North Island. First impressions were that we liked Wellington a lot but the weather was awful - rain constantly! Unfortunately, it remained like this for the next couple of days whilst we were there so we didn't get to do a great deal. Our first evening there we spent driving around the city in the campervan (so we could at least see it and stay dry!) Then we went to the Embassy Theatre. Its a lovely theatre that had been renovated for the Lord of the Rings Premiere. Its [View Full Entry]

Karen and Jamie - Jamie Longrigg & Karen Hawgood | Read The Full Entry | Subscribe
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Published: January 3rd 2007 | 140 Views | [diary=104235]

On to Waitomo!
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