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 ...

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 ...

A Bluff signpost on Stewart Island off the south coast of New Zealand. INVERCARGILL, New Zealand — Pilot Raymond Hector banks his nine-passenger Britten-Norman Islander wide over the Southern Ocean ...

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 ...

Stewart Island/Rakiura has only 28km of sealed or gravel roads, but increasing fuel costs have added spiralling financial pressure for those driving around New Zealand’s third largest island. The ...

Pilot Raymond Hector banks his nine-passenger Britten-Norman Islander wide over the Southern Ocean heading for a beach landing at Mason Bay on rugged Stewart Island, a 20-minute flight from New ...