Seafront at Napier

Naiper

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July 4th 2009
Napier is a small city with a friendly, relaxed vibe. The city boasts the world's finest collection of Art Deco buildings which came about as a result of two and half minutes on the morning of February 3rd, 1931 when the city was rocked by the biggest earthquake in New Zealand's recorded history, measuring 7.9 on the Richter Scale. The centre of the city was reduced to a heap of smouldering rubble ... read more

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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