Lake Wakatipu

The Beginning

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September 4th 2007
We made it! After 29 hrs of travelling we finally set down in Queenstown, NZ at 3pm (11hrs ahead). The journey was tedious as we had been flying mainly through the night - until we got the internal flight from Auckland. The views from the plane when we reached the south island were phenomonal and we had our own personal guide sitting next to us (a 60ish yo guy who's wife was going shop ... 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