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Me And My Knob

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April 28th 2006
8 hours return trip is what the guide book said. Yet only two hours and five minutes after leaving the valley floor I am sitting on top of the comically named "Alex Knob" (1303m). I know jokes are going to come of this... The view is great from the top of the Knob. The Franz Joseph glacier lies below penned in by the rugged mountains of rock and snow. Every now and then helicopters fly up the ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Franz Josef

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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