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Stage 24

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March 13th 2008
This is the "Extreme Sports" capital of New Zealand. During the winter it's a ski resort and the rest of the time it's where they do all manner of mad stuff. It's here that the first ever commercial Bungy jump opened on the Kawarau Bridge but not where the first Bungy jump took place. That was off the Clifton Suspension Bridge back in blighty, so that's somethiong else we invented. I however only ... 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