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Greymouth Mural  
   

Greymouth Mural

Really cool mural of the century's stories on the newspaper building.
Red Hill Mining Town

January 9th 2007
We stayed with two other guests from Sydney in Reefton, and they told us about two B&Bs near the glaciers which we booked at the local I-Site. We left Reefton and stopped in Greymouth, which was a nice sized town that reminded us of both Aberdeen and Bellingham in Washington State. Continuing on, we visited Ross Gold Fields, a mining town that mined gold up until the 1980s. There is a nice mu ... read more
Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Ross

New Zealand Flag 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
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