Team New Zealand

Cool Kiwi!

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December 7th 2005
Dear All, The flight from Hawaii to New Zealand is not a long one, merely a little confusing as you only need to put your watch back an hour, but you have lost an entire day. We flew from Honolulu at midnight on Sunday and, after a lay-over in Fiji, landed safely in Auckland on Tuesday afternoon. Everything went smoothly, except for the stop-over on Samoa (due to bad weather in Fiji, making l ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Auckland

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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