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Welcome to New Zealand - Get Planting you Dirty Pom

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August 27th 2007
Can’t Believe I Missed Me Footy After Only 72 Hours Travelling Okay, so nearer to 32 hours, but I had crossed the International Date Line, so it wasn’t that far off. I was held up at Auckland airport for 9 hours, during which time I’d made about 6 shuttle runs between the Qantas and Air New Zealand ticket counters to see who was going to pay for the flight that I’d now missed (they were ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Dunedin

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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