Barely seven per cent of New Zealand is land. The rest of it, the wet bit, covers four million square kilometres. In 2016, photographer Richard Robinson won a Canon Personal Project Grant that enabled a dozen expeditions into this vast marine prairie, arguably the country’s last great tract of undisturbed wilderness. This is what he found there.


	Where the wild things are Barely seven per cent of New Zealand is land. The rest of it, the wet bit, covers four million square kilometres. In 2016, photographer Richard Robinson won a Canon Personal Project Grant that enabled a dozen expeditions into this vast marine prairie, arguably the country’s last great tract of undisturbed wilderness. This is what he found there.


	Poles apart New Zealand took in its first refugees on October 31, 1944, when 733 Polish children accompanied by 113 caregivers arrived in Pahīatua, in the Northern Wairarapa. It was expected that the children would be able to return home at the end of the war, but it soon became clear that there was no future in Poland for them. They were invited to make a life for themselves in New Zealand.

Bait and switch

If you're fishing for octopus, the first step involves pretending to be a rat.

Adelaide Tarn Hut

You can spend a whole day travelling through some inspiring country and, just when you are thinking that it can’t possibly get better, it does.


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