A few from above

Trip to Cromwell

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December 11th 2009
Next day we took a day trip to Cromwell with Simon and Lucy. The Clutha river comes out of Lake Wanaka like a big green jewel and meanders through the countryside through Cromwell where it gets dammed along with another river from Queenstown and together they form the controversial Clyde Dam ....on a fault line it was discovered after the fact. Its a heavily reinforced dam along the sides and it ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Wanaka

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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