Summer Wine

Blenheim & the Marlborough Wine Region

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June 5th 2007
Details of the Blenheim region for your use to find where to go, what to do, etc. Two routes to Blenheim depending if you came straight from Picton (27 kilometres) or from the Nelson area (116 kilometres - approx 2 hours). - Here is the route from Nelson: From Nelson you return back over Route Six east through Havelock to Renwick. See below for more information about the area. Probably ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Blenheim

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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... ... read more