Advertisement
« previous next »
Poetic Plaque Dedicated to Antarctic Explorers  
   

Poetic Plaque Dedicated to Antarctic Explorers

Autumn Colors, Earthquakes, and Pizza Cravings

March 29th 2010
Greetings everyone!! Highlights from the past couple of weeks in good ol' Queenstown include: 1. A bizarre combination of a severe thunderstorm and an earthquake. What is even stranger is that earthquakes are far more common here than thunderstorms! NZ gets over 100 earthquakes a year strong enough to be felt, but only a handful of lightning and thunder. To experience both of them at the s ... read more
Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Queenstown

New Zealand Flag 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
Advertisement
Tot: 0.017s; Tpl: 0.004s; cc: 4; qc: 6; dbt: 0.0057s; 1; m:domysql w:travelblog (10.17.0.13); sld: 1; ; mem: 1022.2kb