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Long-haired Christchurch mountaineers John Glasgow and Peter Gough became the first to successfully scale the 2000-m Caroline Face of Aoraki/Mt Cook, declaring it a ‘triumph for the hippies’ more...
Captained by John Lort Stokes, the paddle steamer Acheron spent four years charting the New Zealand coastline. more...