Franz Joseph Glacier

NZ South Island West Coast/Fjordland - tight lines!

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February 24th 2013
Greymouth is a feisty little town, the business base of the West Coast of the South Island. When the Tranz Alpine train arrives once a day, it springs to life with queues for rental cars, hungry tourists clambering for a cold beer at the station hotel, and then slowly sinks back into its usual torpor. This is big coal mining country and on the train over the mountains we pass a long train, its car ... 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