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Book Castaway on the Auckland Isles

Download or read book Castaway on the Auckland Isles written by Thomas Musgrave (captain.) and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Account of shipwreck and life on the Aucklands for 20 months; journey in a Phoenix boat built from the wreckage, to Port Adventure, Stewart Island, N.Z." ... almost a classic."--Maggs.

Book Beyond the Roaring Forties

Download or read book Beyond the Roaring Forties written by Conon Fraser and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "New Zealand's lonely subantarctic islands - the Antipodes, Bounty, Snares, Campbell and Auckland Islands - lie south of New Zealand on the way to Antarctica. ... Today all five island groups are managed as nature reserves, and acknowledged to be of worldwide ecological importance, with their rare species of birds, marine mammals, insects and plants, and some of the last remaining unmodified environments on Eath."--Jacket.

Book The Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand

Download or read book The Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand written by Philosophical Institute of Canterbury (Christchurch, N.Z.) and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lost Gold

Download or read book Lost Gold written by Colin Miskelly and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special book-format issue of Birds New Zealand's journal Notornis is devoted to the birds of the Auckland Islands Maukahuka/Motu Maha, the largest and biologically most diverse island group in the New Zealand subantarctic region. Its 19 chapters, written by leading ornithologists, cover a wide range of topics, including the history of ornithological discovery, biogeography, the impacts of introduced mammals and people, prehistoric bird communities based on bone assemblages, and population, ecological and genetic studies of several of the endemic or otherwise notable birds of the island group including Auckland Island snipe, white-headed petrel, and several albatross species.

Book The Auckland Islands

Download or read book The Auckland Islands written by Fergus Blair McLaren and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand

Download or read book The Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand written by Philosophical Institute of Canterbury (Christchurch, N.Z.) and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New Zealand s Subantarctic Islands

Download or read book New Zealand s Subantarctic Islands written by Chris Rance and published by . This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Castaway on the Auckland Isles

Download or read book Castaway on the Auckland Isles written by Thomas Musgrave and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The General Grant s Gold

    Book Details:
  • Author : Madelene Fergusson Allen
  • Publisher : Exisle Publishing
  • Release : 2009-04
  • ISBN : 1775590208
  • Pages : 210 pages

Download or read book The General Grant s Gold written by Madelene Fergusson Allen and published by Exisle Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wreck in 1866 of the General Grant in the desolate sub-Antarctic Auckland Islands is one of the world’s great nautical mysteries, a story that still tantalises and thrills. When the ship was crushed in a cave beneath a sheer cliff face, a few crew members and a handful of passengers managed to escape in a lifeboat. For more than two years they lived a hand-to-mouth existence on a nearby island before they were rescued. This story is extraordinary in itself, but soon compelling legends spread that the ship had sunk with a fabulous hoard of gold from the Victorian goldfields. For 140 years, expeditions and bounty hunters have searched for the ship and her elusive cargo. In the relentless seas of the Auckland Islands, it has been a soul-destroying endeavour. Locating the vessel has been difficult enough; finding the gold has proved impossible – unless one of those early expeditions really did find it … In this book Madelene Ferguson Allen and Ken Scadden tell the full story of the voyage from Melbourne, the shipwreck, the plight of the castaways and the search for the gold. At this distance in time, separating the facts from the legends is difficult, but they have scrupulously researched the events of the shipwreck and examined every subsequent search for the gold. The story is more remarkable than fiction, a tale of heroes and cads, heartbreak and loss, hope and despair, hunger and greed. As it has bewitched so many in the past, so it will haunt readers long after the last page is turned.

Book CODES OF SURVIVAL

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lloyd Godman
  • Publisher : PHOTO - synthesis Media
  • Release : 2023-04-17
  • ISBN : 1923026054
  • Pages : 213 pages

Download or read book CODES OF SURVIVAL written by Lloyd Godman and published by PHOTO - synthesis Media. This book was released on 2023-04-17 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note: This ebook has been specifically designed as an epublication and is optimized for viewing on Thorium Reader. Thorium Reader is the free EPUB reader of choice for Windows 10 and 11, MacOS and Linux.https://www.edrlab.org/software/thorium-reader/ In 1984 Lloyd Godman conceived the idea of take an expedition of artists to the remote Auckland Island 465 kilometres south of New Zealand, experience the wild environment, create a series of works that would tour New Zealand as a series of exhibitions. While these remote protected islands are most often the domain of scientists, Godman argued that artists are scientists, their research is on an aesthetic and conceptual level. Beset with many problems and political brick walls, the project took years to materialize but with perseverance in 1989, eleven artists visited the Islands in a ground-breaking and highly successful project titled Arts to the Subantarctic. (Including, Bill Hammond and Laurence Aberhart's). Works created by the 11 selected artists were curated into an exhibition that toured art galleries and museums throughout New Zealand for over 2 years. The project was also the first-time woman sailed on a New Zealand Naval vessel. Codes of Survival is Godman’s personal response and contribution to the project, and his first series of work with Photograms. He incorporated sophisticated combination black and white photograph photograms to create unique photographic works. The project cumulated with an accompanying installation with a sound scape by Peter Adams and a series of short stories that related to events on the Subantarctic Islands. It was a watershed event where Godman moved to camera-less photography with projects like Adze to Coda, Evidence from the Religion of Technology, Aporian Emulsions and acted as a catalyst for his interest in photosensitivity that led to his current living art works with plants.

Book The Auckland Islands

Download or read book The Auckland Islands written by Charles Enderby and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Galapagos of the Antarctic

Download or read book Galapagos of the Antarctic written by Rodney Russ and published by Heritage Expeditions New Zealand. This book was released on 2009 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galapagos of the Antarctic - Wild Islands South of New Zealand describes the seven oceanic islands groups to the south of New Zealand. Starting at the Chatham Islands, and moving east to west through the Bounty Islands, Antipodes Islands, Campbell Island, Auckland Island, The Snares and Macquarie Island, this book takes the reader on a journey through a unique part of the world, a wonderland of wildlife galore, unique geology and rich human history. Bursting with stunning photographs and illustrations.

Book The Auckland Islands

Download or read book The Auckland Islands written by Elliot W. Dawson and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 507 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Island Time

    Book Details:
  • Author : Damon Salesa
  • Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
  • Release : 2017-12-08
  • ISBN : 1988533503
  • Pages : 128 pages

Download or read book Island Time written by Damon Salesa and published by Bridget Williams Books. This book was released on 2017-12-08 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The task of living in modern New Zealand – and especially in modern Auckland – is not just to understand how to live with different peoples, but how to adapt to the future that has already happened. New Zealand is a nation that exists on Pacific Islands, but does not, will not, perhaps cannot, see itself as a Pacific Island nation. Yet turning to the Pacific, argues Damon Salesa, enables us to grasp a fuller understanding of what life is really like on these shores. After all, Salesa argues, in many ways New Zealand’s Pacific future has already happened. Setting a course through the ‘islands’ of Pacific life in New Zealand – Ōtara, Tokoroa, Porirua, Ōamaru and beyond – he charts a country becoming ‘even more Pacific by the hour’. What would it mean, this far-sighted book asks, for New Zealand to recognise its Pacific talent and finally act like a Pacific nation?

Book Recollocation Of Island Of The Lost

Download or read book Recollocation Of Island Of The Lost written by Grady Wilker and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-02 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Auckland Islands are an archipelago of New Zealand, lying 465 kilometers south of the South Island. The main Auckland Island, occupying 510 km2, is surrounded by smaller Adams Island, Enderby Island, Disappointment Island, Ewing Island, Rose Island, Dundas Island, and Green Island, with a combined area of 626 km2. It is 1864, and Captain Thomas Musgrave's schooner, the Grafton, has just wrecked on Auckland Island, a forbidding piece of land 285 miles south of New Zealand. Battered by year-round freezing rain and constant winds, it is one of the most inhospitable places on earth. To be shipwrecked there means almost certain death. Incredibly, at the same time on the opposite end of the island, another ship runs aground during a storm. Separated by only twenty miles and the island's treacherous, impassable cliffs, the crews of the Grafton and the Invercauld face for the same fate. And yet where the Invercauld's crew turns inward on itself, fighting, starving, and even turning to cannibalism, Musgrave's crew bands together to build a cabin and a forge-and eventually, to find a way to escape.

Book Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand

Download or read book Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand written by Sam Harrison and published by . This book was released on 2022-02-21 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Zealand's five subantarctic island groups appear to the unknowing eye to be desolate outposts in the Southern Ocean, yet this is far from the truth. The water around the islands boils and froths with feeding seabirds, lush mega-herbs fill the forest floor under the scarlet canopy of southern rātā. Albatross glide effortlessly over the cresting waves, their movement so ethereal that witnessing them is an almost spiritual experience, as Robert Murphy alluded to in 1912 in a letter to his wife from the whaling brig Daisy. The subantarctic islands are a spectacular treasure, wilderness on its own terms, an inheritance that deserves to be preserved for the benefit of all. These photographs are an imperfect attempt to share the magic of the islands - from the wild charm of the Snares to the animated attraction of the Auckland Islands, from the ceaseless beauty of Campbell Island to the rugged coasts of the Antipodes and Bounty.

Book Island Of The Greate Lost

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ernestine Lemaitre
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-06-02
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book Island Of The Greate Lost written by Ernestine Lemaitre and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-02 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Auckland Islands are an archipelago of New Zealand, lying 465 kilometers south of the South Island. The main Auckland Island, occupying 510 km2, is surrounded by smaller Adams Island, Enderby Island, Disappointment Island, Ewing Island, Rose Island, Dundas Island, and Green Island, with a combined area of 626 km2. It is 1864, and Captain Thomas Musgrave's schooner, the Grafton, has just wrecked on Auckland Island, a forbidding piece of land 285 miles south of New Zealand. Battered by year-round freezing rain and constant winds, it is one of the most inhospitable places on earth. To be shipwrecked there means almost certain death. Incredibly, at the same time on the opposite end of the island, another ship runs aground during a storm. Separated by only twenty miles and the island's treacherous, impassable cliffs, the crews of the Grafton and the Invercauld face for the same fate. And yet where the Invercauld's crew turns inward on itself, fighting, starving, and even turning to cannibalism, Musgrave's crew bands together to build a cabin and a forge-and eventually, to find a way to escape.