LAKE TAUPO

PAY ATTENTION - HISTORY LESSON

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August 18th 2006
Good day to you all. We left rainy Wellington - not without a Mr Bean-type episode whereby Ken managed to lock his rucksack in the hotel lobby with no way off getting back in and a taxi driver waiting to take us to the bus stop! Thank goodness for some poor guy in the apartment block who we rang from the outside entry phone who opened the door for us. Here begineth the history lesson. Our first ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Auckland

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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