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Capitaine Bouganville memorial

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December 19th 2007
Holly was right, it knows how to rain here! During the night, it rained enough to wake Alex, so it must have been heavy. But it cleared gradually during the morning, so your intrepid explorers set forth to gather news from the far corners of the earth. We decided that, as the bush tracks would be slippery, we'd walk along a coastal path from south to north, from one known to another, but undiscov ... read more

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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