Pancake Rocks

Day 80 - Drive to Fox Glacier

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February 22nd 2006
Today was a very long drive to Fox Glacier village down the west coast. The weather was mixed with patches of rain storms but the scenery was still superb and the single lane roads (which New Zealander's call highways) are the best driving roads in the world! Useless for getting anywhere quick, but entertaining for the driver, if not passengers :-) We stopped in Westport for lunch and finally 8 ho ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » West Coast » Fox Glacier

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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