For eight years, Kiwi photographers have gathered the best images of our environment and society and submitted them to expert judgment and public scrutiny in the New Zealand Geographic Photographer of ...

We’ve all heard of moa, and probably the enormous Haast’s eagle, too, but there were a lot more giant flightless oddities running around the forests of New Zealand when people first stepped ashore, ...

No one knew that Kaikōura was home to the world’s only alpine-dwelling seabird until an amateur ornithologist following a rumour discovered its burrows high in the mountains. As the bizarre attributes ...

In most New Zealand woolsheds the click of the shears has given way to the whine of electric handpiece. But there are still places where the traditional life of the blade-shearing gang continues. Hard ...

A scything ridge of sand—very emblem of desert lands—runs into the great wilderness that is Kokota, the bull-nosed southern head of Parengarenga Harbour. The Far North is a region built on sand, much ...

On these bleak winter days, few varieties of shell survive the white wrath of New Zealand’s West Coast. However, one that is com­monly picked out from among the wrack and foam is the delicately coiled ...

Here we are—a nation of parents, grandparents and children all in the same boat, together at home. He waka eke noa. Every day of the lock-down we will post a story or video and set of activities that ...

Kairara: one blink and you will miss it. It’s nothing more than a few farms scattered at the base of Tutamoe Mountain, about 20 km north of Dargaville. Not a tourist in sight on the day I passed ...

There is nothing unusual about making an effort to get to know the neighbours when moving into a new area, unless you happen to have the interests and devotion of Dr Willy Kuschel, a research ...

If you were a close follower of the world of women’s high fashion during the 1970s and ’80s and wondered what happened to the often spectacular garments created for beauty pageants and fashion awards, ...

Whenua Hou, a tiny island off the coast of Stewart Island, is most famous for its population of kākāpō, but it also has a one-kilometre strip of beach where diving petrels breed. These have just been ...

The tradition of kava has brought people together and consummated important social occasions in the Pacific for 3000 years. The use of kava is growing in New Zealand, with some 25,000 drinkers ...