1. Watson‘s Bay is an old fishing village perched on the southern peninsula that separates the harbor from the Tasman Sea.

2. New Zealanders rarely play with the flair more often associated with their neighbours across the Tasman Sea but you can hardly ever accuse them of holding back.

3. He was a heroic figure who not only ‘knocked off‘ Everest but lived a life of determination, humility, and generosity.‘‘ Across the Tasman Sea, Australia‘s acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard, standing in for vacationing Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, said Hillary‘s name would forever be synonymous with adventure, with achievement, with dreaming and then making those dreams come true.‘‘ It was obviously a long life well lived,‘‘ Gillard told Sky News television. For generations to come people will study what Sir Edmund has achieved by being the first to get to the top of the world.‘‘ Two years after his historic Everest climb, Hillary helped lead a team from the Commonwealth across Antarctica to the South Pole, carving a new path to the Earth‘s magnetic southernmost point.