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Mount Maunganui

New Zealand - Week 8

April 15th 2013
Auckland, Coromandel Peninsula, Mount Maunganui I resumed life as a backacker after just over two weeks with my dad, spending four nights in Auckland. Containing almost a third of the nation's inhabitants, the city is by far New Zealand's biggest and offered the rare experience of being in and amongst shiny skyscrapers. It also had the kind of social (drinking) scene only m ... read more
Oceania » New Zealand » North 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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