High on Proclamation Island in the Bounty Island Group, overlooking the vast Southern Ocean, Salvin’s albatrosses negotiate a fragile peace...
The Bounty Islands were first sighted by William Bligh in 1788, who named them for his ship, mutinied just seven...
Standing at the summit of Proclamation Island, scientist Thomas Mattern guides his drone up ‘the albatross layer’, taking guidance from...
These islands were once home to more than 50,000 fur seals, but they were slaughtered—largely to make coverings for top...
Keep your eyes on the breaking waves where scores of penguins are ready to make landfall after long periods hunting...
Scientist Jeff White is weighing, erect-crested penguins, sampling their blood and feathers in order to understand what the birds have...
Salvin’s albatrosses whirl above Proclamation Island in the subantarctic. The jagged promontory of Depot Island stretches towards the crouching sliver...
Above Hut Cove on Antipodes Island, giant petrels tend the nests of fluffy chicks—looking like they’ve been covered in underfloor...
Anchorage Bay on Antipodes Island is a veritable zoo on calm days like this. Elephant seals the size of station...
Standing a metre tall, an Antipodean albatross chick at barely eight months old is one big baby. Every hour or...
