Cool Cloud Formations

Playing Hide And Seek With The Clouds

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January 7th 2012
Geo: -43.7283, 170.1To see the top of New Zealand, also known as Mount Cook, you will most probably drive past Lake Pukaki in the MacKenzie District, a stunning blue glacial lake with an incredible view of Mount Cook asserting it's dominance in the distance. Well that was the theory anyway.It's a bit hit and miss with the weather, you either see the whole mountain or the mountain covere ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand

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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