Mr and Mrs

Dunedin ... Dunkiwi

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December 21st 2010
Our last few days in NZ were somewhat low-key after all of the excitement of the weeks before. Two very long drives in fairly dreary weather did little to lift the gloom that our time here was coming to an end. Te Anau to Dunedin was just like a drive across Central Scotland and then Dunedin to Christchurch across the flat featureless plains couldn't really live up to the beauty of Fjordland or K ... 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