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Showing posts with label NEW ZEALAND. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NEW ZEALAND. Show all posts
March 8, 2020

3451 NEW ZEALAND (North Island) - Cape Egmont Lighthouse and Mount Taranaki

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This lighthouse was built in London in 1864. A year later, the cast-iron segments were shipped to New Zealand and assembled on Mana Is...
April 9, 2016

0787, 2449 NEW ZEALAND (South Island) - Te Wahipounamu - South West New Zealand (UNESCO WHS)

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0787 Aoraki/Mt Cook Posted on 09.08.2013, 09.04.2016 Located in the south-west corner of South Island , Te Wähipounamu ( Māori ...
February 21, 2016

0295, 2318 NEW ZEALAND - Māori people

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0295 A Māori man Posted on 01.08.2012, 21.02.2016 In 1642, at about 350 years after Māori colonized New Zealand coming from the my...
October 13, 2014

1296 NEW ZEALAND (North Island) - Waihi, the Heart of Gold

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Located in the Coromandel Peninsula , one of the great gold mining districts of the world, Waihi is a little settlement (4,503 inhab...
January 20, 2014

0975 NEW ZEALAND - The map and the flag of the country

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Located in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, at 1,500km east of Australia , New Zealand ( Aotearoa in Māori ) comprises two main landm...
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September 25, 2013

0816 NEW ZEALAND (South Island) - Church of the Good Shepherd

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Situated on the shores of Lake Tekapo , in the South Island of New Zealand , amongst the natural beauty of the lake and the mounta...
August 13, 2013

0793 NEW ZEALAND (North Island) - Tongariro National Park - Mount Ruapehu (UNESCO WHS)

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In 1993 Tongariro National Park became the first property to be inscribed on the World Heritage List under the revised criteria de...
July 25, 2013

0767 NEW ZEALAND (South Island) - Moeraki Boulders

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The Moeraki Boulders are unusually large and spherical boulders lying along Koekohe Beach, at a place named Kumara, midway between...
June 26, 2012

0260 NEW ZEALAND (South Island) - A hotel for goldseekers

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Are two ways to drive between Queenstown (a major centre for snow sports) and Wanaka (the gateway to Mount Aspiring National Park), and...
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March 5, 2012

0137 NEW ZEALAND - Sheep farming

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The first European who reached New Zealand was Abel Tasman in 1642, but the islands weren't visited again until 1769, when James ...