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

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 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 ...

A shipwreck that has been part of Vancouver Island's history for more than a century is a charred skeleton after a fire earlier this month.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers confirmed the final resting place of 18th-century British explorer Captain James Cook’s lost ship is in Newport Harbor.

Association vice-president Malcolm McGregor said the cast bronze deck fastener, or spike, was similar to those used in the mid-1800s and discovered from shipwrecks in the Auckland Islands, 465 ...

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.

OPINION: Following the decision by a Japanese-New Zealand joint venture to consider shutting down an Auckland Island pig breeding facility at Awarua, near Invercargill, has been like watching an ...