Banks Peninsula

Banks Peninsula & Christchurch

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June 15th 2013
We were now onto the last leg of our road trip around New Zealand. After our day at Mount Cook we spent the night back on the east cost in Timaru, before driving the rest of the way to Aakora in the Banks Peninsula. Once we'd left the main state highway, as with most of our journeys in New Zealand, it was a pleasure to drive: lush green hills, the smell of the sea in the air and barely another ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Christchurch

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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