Mount Cook

Mount Cook

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December 16th 2006
I managed to get a couple of views of Mount Cook during my time there. The YHA was full so I stayed at the expensive hostel which was a rip off. We played Trivial Pursuits because the weather was so bad on the afternoon of my arrival. I had a few beers in the eveing with a canadian guy on leave from Afganistan, an english guy and a young dutchman who was some kind of internet geek and was a w ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Mount Cook National Park

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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