Member Greg Moulding responded to the late-night call. “We experience a variety of different situations in our role, no two rescues are ever the same. Safe to say that the recovery of a vessel that has been missing at sea for two years is one of the more unusual jobs I’ve responded to.
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The barnacle-covered saildrone was found on a Victoria beach recently. “When I got to the beach last night, I thought we’d stumbled across something extraordinary but little did I know we’d solved a longstanding mystery. “I spoke with its owner this afternoon who, due to the coronavirus pandemic, is unable to travel from the USA and organise retrieval. He was absolutely ecstatic that the vessel had been found and is hopeful that some of the data it has been collecting will be able to be retrieved.
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It’s become a popular location for ironic Google reviews and jokey claims of residence. But Disappointment Island is far more than just a silly meme, writes Louise Fisher.
Four hundred seventy-five kilometres off the southern coast of the South Island lie the seven uninhabited islands known collectively as the Auckland Islands. While they have strong historic cultural and spiritual significance to Ngāi Tahu, the Auckland Islands are, in general, visited only by biologists and conservation workers. Still, one of the seven – the tiny Disappointment Island – has managed to take the internet by storm
If you’re not a local, you may have first come across Disappointment Island via Snapchat; in recent years it’s become a popular place to locate yourself on the social media platform’s Snap Map. After all, why say you’re at home, when you could claim to be hanging out on a subantarctic island with a hilariously ironic name? As the island’s notoriety has grown, so have the m
Every day they scanned the horizons for Japanese warships that were feared to be on their way to invade New Zealand from the south. They never saw one, as the Japanese had no such plan. But regardless of that, the Coastwatchers have long been praised for overcoming hostile environments to perform their duties, which as well as keeping watch included filing weather reports and doing scientific research. As an 18-year-old radio operator, Jones was the youngest of 56 men who did tours of duty at the inhospitable southern bases – two located on the Main Auckland Island and one on even more remote Campbell Island.
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March 11, 2021
A New Zealand sea lion (Photo: DOC)
They’re big, they’re bold and they’re back: Why sea lions returned to the mainland
Noticed a lot more sea lions popping up around our inhabited coastline in recent years? There’s a good reason for that, explains Erica Wilkinson of DoC.
Did you know that when a New Zealand sea lion wants to play, it leans down on its front legs with its head close to the ground – the identical “play bow” that we love to see our pet dogs do?