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Monday 26/1/15

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February 1st 2015
Monday 26/1/15 Napier. Picked up a walk guide from the Art Deco Centre and headed out to explore the city. Interesting history of the rebuilding of Napier after the earthquake in 1930 (???) The land lifted about 2m and created dryland from the lagoon that was next to the, originally, very small city. The beach shelves a few times quite steeply and is made up of pebbles, we went across it for a loo ... 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