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Queenstown From Across Lake Wakatipu  
   

Queenstown From Across Lake Wakatipu

The view of Queenstown across Lake Wakatipu.
Queenstown

January 6th 2007
We’ve just spent the day in Queenstown. We’re pretty tired from all of the driving that we’ve done since our arrival in New Zealand, so we wanted to make it a low-key stop. We arrived yesterday after our wonderful day in Milford Sound. As I mentioned in that blog, it is a five-hour drive from Milford Sound to Queenstown. We broke up this drive by eating dinner in Te Anau, but we were sti ... read more
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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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