The approach along Knob's Flat

Milford Sound

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October 17th 2008
Polly: At the start of our trip, in the Bay of Islands, we met a French couple who were travelling round NZ in a campervan with their 6- and 8-year-old daughters. We then bumped in to them at the Superloo in Taupo a few weeks later. And again in Kaikoura! When we saw them the last time they invited us to their camper for a cuppa. Like us, they had found a month very short to explore both is ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Milford Sound

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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