Cruising the Inland waterway of Milford Sound and weird underwater creatures
April 8th 2013 Seeing the Tasman Sea for the first time, I feel elated to realize that we are so far south in the Southern Hemisphere. The vast Fiordland National Park was created in 1952 and is one of New Zealand’s largest untamed wildernesses of which Milford Sound is a part.
It was first discovered by a Welshman in 1809 who named it Milford Haven, but in 1851 this was later renamed Milford Sound by another
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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 
