Stream jumping

Franz Josef Glacier

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October 22nd 2008
Ross: From Wanaka we made the lengthy drive north towards the west coast of South Island, through a very drizzly Haast and onwards to Fox Glacier. The west coast of South Island is very wet, so much so that they measure rain fall in metres, not millimetres. The rain is a result of warm air from Australia blowing over the Tasman sea, picking up loads of water and dumping it when it hits NZ's So ... 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