Milford Sounds

New Zealand - South Island

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April 5th 2018
Just getting over to the South Island is an experience in itself as you take the ferry across from Wellington and make your way through the Marlborough Sounds into Picton. It takes about three and a half hours and the first impressions suggested that those people who insisted that the South Island was prettier than the North might not be exaggerating! We were meeting Whebo and Pelley in Christchur ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island

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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