Auckland 050

Auckland fun

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January 19th 2006
Yesterday Shaheen and I went on a free Kiwi Experience tour of Auckland. The weather was beautiful and it was really nice to get out of downtown Auckland for a few hours. We visited a beach on the North Shore and then went up North Head and got great views of the city. On North Head there were a bunch of tunnels that the military dug all throughout the hill, so we walked through them and then h ... 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