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The Stewart Island Experience Boat

Crossing Foveaux Strait will be an experience I won't forget in a hurry!
Kiwi Spotting

September 29th 2006
The third and smallest of New Zealand's three islands, is the kiwi haven of Stewart Island, a mere boat ride South of the South Island across the Foveaux Strait. The reason most people visit is for the pure wilderness of the place, the opportunity to do some cracking tramping and the added bonus of a rare spotting of a kiwi in the wild. We spent a night in Invercargill, a last minute decision ma ... read more
Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Southland » Stewart Island

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
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