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The Coromandel Peninsula

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November 15th 2009
After only one full day in Auckland Brett and I decided that it was time to do some surf-chasing, so we stocked up on groceries and headed over to Whangamata, a little beach town on the Coromandel Peninsula. As Murphy's Law would have it, the ocean was completely flat, and remained that way (much to our dismay) for the entire four days that we stuck around - despite our religious checking of it e ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand

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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