It may have a Maori moniker, but Akaroa is a little slice of France nestled on New Zealand’s South Island. ** A picturesque B&B built in the 1870s. It was one of the town’s first doctor’s surgeries.

As darkness descends at Pohatu Penguins, a penguin colony on the Banks Peninsula on the east coast of New Zealand's South Island, the sightless little blue penguin in question is swimming in circles ...

As we step ashore from the tender at the picture-postcard township of Akaroa on the east side of New Zealand's South Island, an old man "dangling a line, fishing for cod" waves and wishes us a good ...

Akaroa is one of three locations which has made it into the top five cruise destinations in Australia and New Zealand. It came in third, just ahead of Wellington and Tauranga in the annual Cruise ...

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Inshore patrol vessels HMNZS Pukaki and HMNZS Taupo will make Akaroa Harbour their home during this year’s French Fest celebrations courtesy of the Royal New Zealand Navy. Departing 1 October from ...

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