Jo, Steve and Jools

Fox's Glacier Mint

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February 23rd 2008
Panorama: Fox Glacier Neve After my defeat at the Battle of Franz Josef, we spurned the Glaciers and decided to head off further south. ('It's only a bit of ice up a mountain anyway'). As it happens, Jo and Tony, a smashing couple of fellow intrepid explorers from the UK whom we'd met many months ago at Blue Lake, Rotorua, were venturing forth in our direction so we arranged a timely meet ... read more

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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