Beach on Otago peninsula

If Sheep Ruled the World.....

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July 6th 2006
.....New Zealand would be their capital. My original plan when I started out in April was to spend four to six weeks in New Zealand. Due to the lure of other places, this got whittled down two weeks. I didn't want to do some sort of death march, so there was no way I was going to see both island. I figured two weeks on the south island was a good chunk of time. Of course it wasn't even close ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Otago

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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