Books about Auckland Islands shipwrecks remain popular, even amidst the vast pantheon of New Zealand adventure stories. Though mostly out of print, you can ...

The finest survival stories combine struggle and endurance with an intellectual puzzle.

The Auckland Islands — "a small but significant part of New Zealand's conservation heritage" Prime Minister Helen Clark and Conservation Minister Sandra Lee leave this morning on a three-day ...

Follow the podcast on. In 1866, the gold-laden General Grant left Melbourne and headed for London via Cape Horn. She disappeared into a giant cave on the west coast of Auckland Island.

After a number of high-profile shipwrecks, ... Seven months later, however, the crew was able to put together a small boat, which they used to sail to the depot on Auckland Island.

The Dundonald, 2,205 tonnes, a steel four-masted barque, sank after being forced onto the west of Disappointment Island in 1907. Boy's own adventure yarns, about shipwrecks on the Auckland Islands ...

How separate simultaneous shipwrecks on the same island orchestrated an invaluable real-life experiment in teamwork and connection. On January 3, 1864, a ship called the Grafton was sunk by a ...