Hey,
I am currently travelling New Zealand (since half ayear now) and am started thinking about KIWI POD's
I've been to the tiny town of Akaroa on the Bank's Peninsula
two times. It is the site of a failed French settlement in the then already British (though not really controlled) NZ islands...
Based on what I read on the plaques i Akaro the WI question came to my mind:
So I started working out a detailed POD for a possible divided New Zealand (British North Island and French south Island) here
http://althistory.wikia.com/wiki/New_Zealand_Two_Way
based upon what I found here
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ourstuff/SettlementatAkaroa.htm
Does nyone have any further ideas, quotations, material which might help me? i know the British had already established contrcts with the local iwi (Maori tribe) in the region and the Treaty of Waitangi was not far away, but maybe...
And of course what do you think about the idea?realistic? other variations , or Kiwi-focussed POD'S (Cook not finding it, Abel Tasman either) ... polynesian empire etc etc. anyone
Thx for responses
Xi'Reney
I am currently travelling New Zealand (since half ayear now) and am started thinking about KIWI POD's
I've been to the tiny town of Akaroa on the Bank's Peninsula
two times. It is the site of a failed French settlement in the then already British (though not really controlled) NZ islands...
Based on what I read on the plaques i Akaro the WI question came to my mind:
So I started working out a detailed POD for a possible divided New Zealand (British North Island and French south Island) here
http://althistory.wikia.com/wiki/New_Zealand_Two_Way
based upon what I found here
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ourstuff/SettlementatAkaroa.htm
Does nyone have any further ideas, quotations, material which might help me? i know the British had already established contrcts with the local iwi (Maori tribe) in the region and the Treaty of Waitangi was not far away, but maybe...
And of course what do you think about the idea?realistic? other variations , or Kiwi-focussed POD'S (Cook not finding it, Abel Tasman either) ... polynesian empire etc etc. anyone
Thx for responses
Xi'Reney