Poor Knights Islands - in the underwater cave

Poor Knights Islands and back to Auckland

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April 11th 2010
The Poor Knights Islands and back to Auckland When I got back to Auckland from the South Island, I hired a car for a few days again and drove north to a small town on the coast called Tutukaka. This town is the place to be if you want to do New Zealand's best diving at the Poor Knights Islands. The islands are mainly big rocks jutting out from the sea with some collapsed walls, resulting in hol ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Whangarei » Tutukaka

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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