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The year is 1890, and stream tin has been sensationally discovered in southern Stewart Island of New Zealand. Elizabeth - young, gentile, sheltered, and fresh off the boat from Scotland - has arrived in remote and rugged Port Pegasus to meet George, her betrothed, who is running the only miner’...

a Golden Bay memoir

more tales from Northwest Nelson

More Stories from Northwest Nelson

In 1906, at just 16 years of age, Angelina Moleta left the tiny volcanic island of Stromboli off Sicily to travel to an even remoter island on the other side of the world.

HARD-CASE HEROES – Stories from the Abel Tasman, focuses on some of the quirky and largely untold characters associated with the Abel Tasman coast and its uplands. Early settlers and park rangers, an island hermit and defiant squatters, graziers and limestone miners. Hard-Core Heroes is a high...