Legend of Pania

Napier: The Art Deco City

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February 18th 2009
Napier, on the shores of the South Pacific, invited us to come ashore on on a beautiful, sunny day in February. It is a uniquely enchanting small city with some of the finest examples of Art Deco architecture in the world, accented with palm trees and Norfolk Island pines. Napier is much older than it looks today. Napier and Hawkes Bay, with it's well established Maori history was first sigh ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Napier

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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