Mount Eden View

Auckland

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May 17th 2013
We touched down in Auckland at around 4am after a 13 hour flight. Our friend Scott who we both knew from primary and high school kindly offered to pick us up from the airport. It was dark when we got outside and the temperature was pretty mild, not what we were used to after three and a half months in South America. Scott took us back to his house in a neighbourhood called Mount Roskill which he s ... read more

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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