New Zealand prides itself on being far away. Lorde, the Flight of the Concords guys, and even Auckland-based designer Maggie Marylin have all described their country as “a little island at the bottom ...

Those that brave the trek across an oft-choppy southerly passage are rewarded with a heaping portion of untouched natural grandeur, even by New Zealand’s outsized standards. Only the most passionate ...

We distill six lessons from a sea kayak expedition around New Zealand’s Stewart Island, a wild, barren island in the Southern Ocean. At the bottom of New Zealand is another, smaller lesser-known ...

Sitting less than 20 miles south of South Island across the Foveaux Strait, Steward Island is New Zealand's third-largest island. An hourlong ferry ride from the South Island's southernmost town of ...

Locals allege shark cage diving has dramatically changed the behavior of great white sharks, and now Stewart Island is feeling a bit like Amity Island. Locals on Stewart Island say shark cage diving ...

A team of 22 volunteers has returned from Stewart Island / Rakiura after five days clearing rubbish from some of the South Island’s most remote and exposed coastline, as part of the Southern Coastal ...