by Carl Walrond
There’s a piece of New Zealand in Finland – a solitary rock from Pourewa Island commemorating the landing there of the first Finn. In New Zealand there are few signs of those hardy Scandinavians who followed, literally clearing the way: swinging an axe and milling the timber for the new colony. The founders of Dannevirke and Norsewood bade ‘farvel’ to their homelands long ago, and all too soon to their cultures as well.
Main image: Scandinavian parade, Wellington, 2003
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