Mt Cook

January 10th

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January 18th 2009
We left Mt Cook this Am and headed south for a bit on our way to Christchurch. Along the was we stopped and checked out some Mauri drawing on a cliff. They had been weathered pretty bad and weren’t that visible. We also stopped and saw the elephant boulders. They are some rocks that have been weathered over thousands of years and are just in the middle of a field. You can find fossles of sharks ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Christchurch

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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