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NicholasW exultantly declared Then I can say Mt Cook by itself!
[triumphant Daffy Duck finger raised in air emoticon]
Nope, sorry, there ain't so such place no more. If you do find a postage stamp with that particluarly fragile lump of rock on it, said rock will be given its official legal designation - Aoraki/Mt. Cook. The renaming was a major part of a compensation deal reached between the Crown and Ngai Tahu, the Maori iwi whose traditional lands include over 80% of the South Island and whose chairman has the wonderfully traditional Maori surname of O'Regan. As much fun as this little stirring excercise has been, Nicholas, I have to confess that I feel as you do on this matter. I'm a Yangon, Myanmar sort of guy myself. I love the challenge of trying to get it right, even though, as an amateur, I almost certainly mutilate them in a way that adepts such as yourself would cringe at. At least I drive through Paraparaumu on my to Wellington, not Paraparam. That's gotta be worth summat, eh, CapK?
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