Lake Wakatipu

Roger that! Our coordinates are S 45°02.120' E 168°39.144'

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May 31st 2007
After a 12 hour flight from LAX and an Ambien induced coma, we have arrived in New Zealand. We arrived in Auckland at about 6:00 am New Zealand time on May 31st, which is somewhere around 10am on May 30th at home. We had a 4 hour layover between our 2 hour flight into Queenstown which, by the way was about as nerve racking as a Tijuana taxi ride. Not only did we pull some serious g's making turns ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Queenstown

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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