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Arapawa Island -- "Slave Island"

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December 4th 2008
I spent the last eight daze WWooFing on Arapawa Island. It's a 25 km long isle with a residential population of 40. Home to the whaling stations of old and WWII military outposts, its channel is the gateway through to the South Island. I had to board the only transport available to get there, the biweekly running mail boat. Now when they said, "Just jump on the mail boat." I had pictured a weather ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Picton

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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