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Life on the edge

In Life on the Edge, New Zealanders and Australians describe living and working in some of the world's most isolated places

  • Kathy Morrison, who was the keeper of Kamau Taurua/ Quarantine Island in Dunedin New Zealand for 12 years.

    Wild, soaked and exhilarated: my 12 years as the keeper of Quarantine Island

    In an extract from her book Seaswept, Kathy Morrison tells of managing an isolated community in southern New Zealand
  • Friends in the windows: Banjo the dog, Kylie Bakker and Lisa Benson

    Rainbow after rainbow: finding a home in remote and windswept Stewart Island

    Laire Purik spent years travelling before ending up in one of the world’s most isolated places, at the very southern tip of New Zealand
  • Matthew Jordan, the project manager on the Scott Base redevelopment project on Ross Island, Antarctica.

    ‘Sunlight streams in at 2am’: life inside New Zealand’s Antarctica base

    Matthew Jordan fell in love with the vast southern continent on a cruise. Eight years later, he’s preparing to spend months working through an Antarctic winter
  • Writer Flora Feltham lives on Te Mana o Kupe o Aotearoa, or Mana Island, a nature sanctuary off the coast of Wellington

    One house, two people and some rare flightless birds: welcome to Mana Island

    Time unfurls differently on this treasured wildlife haven, half an hour from the coast of New Zealand’s north island
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