Church of the Good Shepherd

Lake Tekapo and Mt. Cook

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November 23rd 2008
Lake Tekapo is a tiny place set among pine trees on a beautiful lake with brown hills rising to peaks still cloaked in the remains of winter snow. The lake, like others in the region, is turquoise thanks to glacial flour. Glaciers have ground the rocks into a powder as fine as flour, which hangs suspended in the water to reflect sunlight. Because of the size of these particles, it's the turquoise ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Lake Tekapo

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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