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Walk at Franz Josef

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March 21st 2007
The weather overcast so we enquired about helicopter trips up the glacier but none flying today so we booked for tomorrow. Instead we walked in the valley below the glacier. First a short walk to the top of Sentinel Rock from which there is a good view of the glacier from below. Then we did a walk towards the glacier base and a walk past a wonderful little lake in which the glacier was reflected ... 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