Shaun Barnett beats the crowds and sees the best of New Zealand’s oldest national park In the 1840s, when artist George French Angas came to New Zealand in search of ‘nature in her wildest aspect’, he found it at Tongariro. Observing Mt Ngauruhoe, he was exhilarated by the sunset, which left ‘the deep valleys veiled […]
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