Albatross

A Day Trip to the Pennisula

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March 15th 2009
Hi all, Another quick entry before I go to bed. I tend to write on here whenever I do something more interesting than classes, and that is the case again. One of my friends from the Arcadia group and I booked a day trip to the Otago Pennisula today with Elm Wildlife Tours. The pennisula is just outside of our city, Dunedin, about an hour's drive, but seeing as we don't have a car we had to boo ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Dunedin

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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