Royal Albatross

The only land based colony of albatross in the world. These graceful Bird (in the air, but on the ground is a different story) have a wing span of 9 feet and weigh somewhere in the neighborhood of 20 lbs.

Invercargill to Dunedin

January 2nd 2007
The proof is in the photos and their descriptions so I will leave most of the explanation to those devices. Left Invercargill around 10am and headed east towards Dunedin. I realized ten minutes out of town that I had forgotten to capture Invercargill on camera. Fortunately I had a postcard of the town at hand. We stopped at various sites along the road, which was the southerly most route th ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Invercargill

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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