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CM in the Stockade

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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