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Blog #12 Leaving the North Island – Picton, South Island

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December 13th 2010
Blog #12 Leaving the North Island – Picton, South Island – November 27 – 28 – 29, 2010 After three great weeks on the North Island, we turned our faces south. We drove to Wellington, capital of New Zealand, and located at the south end of the North Island. We stopped in Greytown to purchase lunch from a French Bakery, and ate our lunch in our usual picnic style, accompanied by the inevita ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand

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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