Blue penguins

Last week and a half of NZ

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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

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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