Pink Deco

New Zealand

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May 25th 2007
Day 6: Napier and Art Deco Tour We were on the bus shortly after sunrise today, and Wellington seemed to have been up and moving for quite some time. The drive out of the city was certainly a change of pace in that, until this point, we hadn’t really seen a freeway or even any notion of traffic for that matter. New Zealand has a total population of just over 4 million, and more t ... 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