Gold Town cottage

5th February 2008

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February 8th 2008
5th February 2008 Today we drove from Queenstown to The Hermitage in the shadow of Mount Cook. It has been bright and sunny from the start to the end of the day although there was some high cloud on the tops of mountains. Our first stop was at Arrowtown , an old gold town. Rather sanitized for tourists but pretty. We drove through the Gibbston valley which has a deep gorge where the Kawerau Ri ... 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