Early morning in

Matarangi

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November 14th 2012
Hello everybody, Today we have been in NZ 3 weeks. Yesterday we made our way down the west coast of the Coromandel Peninsula from the beach house in Matarangi to the Bedfords home in Tauranga. We will leave tomorrow for Gisbourn on the east coast (Pacific) about 200 mi. The pictures you see is of a large gold mining operation done in he early 1900's mining gold from quartz. been cl ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » North Island » Coromandel Peninsula

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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