view over akaroa harbor

First 3 Weeks

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October 13th 2005
While spending a week and a half in Auckland, staying with my sister's friend Cliff and exploring the city, I decided to get more of a taste of the northern North Island. I took a bus tour up to a beautiful region called the Bay of Islands. Along the way we stopped and saw amazing Kaori trees, which were logged almost to extinction but are now being replanted (they take hundreds, even thousands ... 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