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Looking onto Deer Park Heights, with sorrow - all the LOTR destinations, they should have been mine!!

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November 9th 2009
Bonjour We arrived by plane in Queenstown (mid west coast of the south island) on Monday, after flying from Christchurch. The plane journey itself only took 50 minutes. Queenstown Airport is surrounded by mountains on pretty much all sides so it looked well cool coming in on the plane, like landing in the middle of the Alps! We booked an apartment for 3 nights in Queenstown when we were in ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Queenstown

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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