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A Visit to the Cloud Piercer

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September 14th 2008
Day 533 (12.09.08) After a leisurely morning we hit the road in the blazing sunshine in search of Mt Cook/Aoraki not too far up the road from where we’d been staying. We made a quick stop at the local salmon farm on one of the impossibly turquoise lakes of the area. We had great fun feeding the fish and bought some smoked salmon for our last dinner with Jean and Mike who we’d sadly be separat ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Mount Cook National Park

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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