Milford Sound

It's hard to appreciate how big these mountains are from the photograph. The highest peak you can see on the left is the biggest mountain in the world to come directly out of the sea - just under 1700m tall.

Last week and a half of NZ

January 22nd 2010
I've gone a bit photo-mad on this blog entry and it's also quite a long one. It's been an extremely busy last week and a half with a lot of moving around. After leaving Franz Josef, my next stop was the adrenaline capital of the world - Queenstown. The city and the surrounding area is basically just like a huge playground where you can do pretty much every extreme sport and activity that you can t ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island

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

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