Behold Pickersgill Harbour, late March, 1773. From a three-masted sloop, James Cook’s sea-weary crew are finally coming ashore after three months in the Southern Ocean. A group  plunges deep into the Fiordland forest, stripping the surrounding mānuka and rimu trees as they go. It’s thirsty work, but no matter: they’re about to brew this country’s first beer. Keep reading... Tomorrow night, whether you're toasting victory or commiserating loss as the election results come through, pass the time with our story on New Zealand's craft beer culture.
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October 16, 2020
 
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Drowning sorrow, celebrating victory

Tomorrow night, whether you're toasting victory or commiserating loss as the election results come through, pass the time with our story on New Zealand's craft beer culture:

Behold Pickersgill Harbour, late March, 1773. From a three-masted sloop, James Cook’s sea-weary crew are finally coming ashore after three months in the Southern Ocean. A group  plunges deep into the Fiordland forest, stripping the surrounding mānuka and rimu trees as they go. It’s thirsty work, but no matter: they’re about to brew this country’s first beer. Keep reading...

  
 
 
  
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Is this the best picture of 2020?

It's neck and neck for the People's Choice award in this year's Photographer of the Year competition. Visit the finalists' gallery for the Photographer of the Year and make your vote count in the second-most important election of 2020. Vote now

  
 
 
  
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Dip into one of our Great Reads

Sick of the election? Already voted? Not planning to follow the jostling of coalition-forming over the next few weeks? Escape the news cycle with one of New Zealand Geographic's longform stories. Join a crew searching for a gold-bearing shipwreck, travel out to the edge of our oceanic realm with a bizarre animal, the argonaut, or take a trip to New Zealand's past, where you'd meet our long-dead dinosaur birds: the owlet-nightjar, the musk duck, the adzebill... actually, you'd probably want to avoid the adzebill. See our stories...

  
 
 
  
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Visit the exhibition

The 2020 Photographer of the Year exhibition is now open at the New Zealand Maritime Museum on the corner of Quay and Hobson Streets. See all 40 finalists and vote on your favourites for the Ockham People's Choice award. 

  
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