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It's a most American holiday, but for many US immigrants living in New Zealand, finding their own ways to celebrate Thanksgiving in Aotearoa has truly given them something to be grateful for.
Rocks from Antarctica form a memorial to an American explorer on a wind-swept hill overlooking the New Zealand capital. The stones are part of a tent-like monument to honor Rear Adm. Richard Evelyn Byrd at the top of Mount Victoria.