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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
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