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Karen Aim, from Orkney, was found lying injured in the street in the North Island town of Taupo in the early hours of Thursday morning.

A team of 50 police officers are investigating what they described as a "ghastly" attack on the 26-year-old after a night out.

A post-mortem confirmed that she died of serious head injuries which detectives believe were inflicted by a weapon.

Friends of the traveller left hundreds of tributes on the social networking website Bebo which Ms Aim updated with stories and pictures of her travels.

CCTV images show Miss Aim visited a BP garage at around 2am on Wednesday shortly after leaving a bar.

She was discovered lying semi-conscious in the street half an hour later. The traveller was able to tell officers who found her her name, but died later in hospital.

It was her second visit to New Zealand after a three-month stay in 2006 and she had been working at a glass blowing gallery in the resort town.

Detective senior sergeant Greg Turner said the hunt for Miss Aim's killer would be hampered by the large numbers of tourists currently in Taupo. The population of the area was 21,000 which swelled to 40,000 in the summer.

The murder investigation is currently focusing on a group who vandalised a nearby college. Mystery also surrounds the murder weapon, which the post-mortem failed to identify.