South Island - falling for you

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November 18th 2012
Hello and welcome to another thrilling, lengthy edition of our blog. If you are just reading the first paragraph to make sure we are still alive... we're actually dead.....good at writing these blogs, so you should read them to the end. We will be testing you. After exploring the North Island of New Zealand, we caught a ferry with the rest of our tour to the South Island. The landscape remi ... 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