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Day 86

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January 25th 2011
Any day was likely to struggle to live up to yesterday, and, as we packed up our tent and left Te Anau, I couldn’t help but feel we should maybe have spent another day there, we never really got to explore the town that much, not that there was a lot of it, but, with the clouds gathering, we packed up the tent, had breakfast and hit the road. Nothing really of note on the drive down, there was s ... 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