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Venturing into Central Otago

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January 24th 2008
Time keeps moving, blogging gets put on the back burner, however, the blog must live on to give light to our memories and home hemisphere. As the time has past since our last update, blog items have tallied, therefore expect a string of them over the next while. We will now pick up where we left off in Dunedin. Christina and I were about to leave Dunedin, which was a perfect fortress of peer ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Central Otago

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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