View From the Routeburn Track

A Weekend in Queenstown

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March 9th 2009
Just a brief entry because it's been a little while since the last one. I've settled into life in Dunedin and classes are now in their second week. (That was a little bit of a letdown- the vacation was over, the work has begun!) Classes are run differently here and it looks like the class I hoped to use to replace my Science methods course will be too easy so I will have to take that once I'm ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Queenstown

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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