The Coromandel Peninsula - A memory (and souvenir) which will last forever . . .
October 16th 2010 Continuing on from our previous blog, after driving back through Auckland we had decided to head east and then back up the coast to a region called the Coromandel Peninsula. Looking at a map of the north island of NZ, this is the part which slightly bends away from the main land area and there is a very scenic ring road (freeway 25) which follows the coastline in a huge loop passing through variou
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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 
