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Goodbye New Zealand

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August 24th 2007
First up, apologies for another blog so soon but we are leaving for Oz tomorrow and it seemed silly to make the next/this entry cover 2 countries. Also we have been quite busy on the activites front and I know that you all desperately want to hear about it, or that you use the internet too much and have nothing better to do with your time. After I manouevered our van into a post, we decided to ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island

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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