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Polynesian navigators reached Aotearoa around 1300 AD, making it one of the last large landmasses humans settled.
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New Zealand · Oceania & the Pacific
External reference (site language): New Zealand ↗
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Kaitiakitanga: guardianship of the land, on the understanding that you are only borrowing it.Maori concept
Oceania · Oceania & the Pacific
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Everyone takes the same forced-perspective photo and everyone thinks they invented it. Our driver had a box of props and a practised routine and enjoyed it more than we did.
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Uyuni, Bolivia · The Americas
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Carved by glaciers rather than a river, Milford is technically a fiord, and it gets over six metres of rain a year.
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Milford Sound, New Zealand · Oceania & the Pacific
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In 2017 the Whanganui River was granted legal personhood, with guardians appointed to speak for it.
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Whanganui, New Zealand · Oceania & the Pacific
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Sixty-four kilometres downhill with a drop on one side. The guide said the brakes were the only thing worth checking and then checked them four times.
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Yungas Road, Bolivia · The Americas
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Turangawaewae: a place to stand, the ground where you feel connected and empowered.Maori concept
Oceania · Oceania & the Pacific
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Geothermal activity vents hydrogen sulphide across the town, earning it the nickname Sulphur City.
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Rotorua, New Zealand · Oceania & the Pacific
External reference (site language): List of city and town nicknames in New Zealand ↗
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The world's biggest urban cable car network is public transport, not a ride. We commuted across the city over rooftops for the price of a bus fare.
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La Paz, Bolivia · The Americas
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The first commercial bungee site opened at the Kawarau Bridge in 1988, inspired by Vanuatu land diving.
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Queenstown, New Zealand · Oceania & the Pacific
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Naghol divers leap from wooden towers with vines tied to their ankles, a harvest ritual centuries older than bungee.
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Pentecost, Vanuatu · Oceania & the Pacific
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Songlines: routes across the land recorded in song, a map you can sing rather than fold.Aboriginal Australian tradition
Oceania · Oceania & the Pacific
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The ground moves under your feet like a mattress. They add fresh reeds every fortnight and the whole island is rebuilt from underneath over about thirty years.
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Lake Titicaca, Peru · The Americas
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Fiji comprises around 330 islands, of which about a third are permanently inhabited.
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Fiji · Oceania & the Pacific
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In 2011 Samoa jumped the international date line for trade reasons, and 30 December simply never happened.
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Samoa · Oceania & the Pacific
External reference (site language): History of Samoa ↗
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The best cevicherias close in the afternoon because the fish is from that morning. Anyone serving ceviche at eight in the evening, our host said, is telling you something.
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Lima, Peru · The Americas
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Walkabout: a journey undertaken on foot to reconnect with country and self.Australian usage
Oceania · Oceania & the Pacific
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Tonga is the only Pacific nation never formally colonised, retaining its monarchy throughout.
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Tonga · Oceania & the Pacific
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Kiribati's scattered atolls cross both the equator and the date line, giving it an enormous ocean territory.
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Kiribati · Oceania & the Pacific
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Five thousand metres, three hundred people and a queue for the summit photograph. Twenty minutes along the ridge there was nobody at all and the same view.
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Vinicunca, Peru · The Americas
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Licensing the .tv internet domain has provided a meaningful share of Tuvalu's national revenue.
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Tuvalu · Oceania & the Pacific
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A guest brings good fortune with him.Nothing runs away. A sea lion slept on a bench, a bird walked over my boot, and a marine iguana sneezed salt at me without moving.
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Galapagos, Ecuador · The Americas
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Phosphate mining briefly made Nauru extraordinarily wealthy before the deposits ran out in the 1990s.
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Nauru · Oceania & the Pacific
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The missed ferry. The stranger who handed over a key. The meal that ran until midnight. If something happened to you on the road and you still think about it, send it - a few sentences is plenty, and we do the tidying up.
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