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When black-backs attack

Put a drone up and any self-respecting black-backed gull in the vicinity will be there...

Two years on Mana Island

Flora Feltham wrote an early version of our cover story when she was living on...

Where the bone people began

On page 54, Nic Low writes about a beach settlement at Moeraki. The sea is...

Jingle shells, jingle shells…

Ned the snail, whose discovery made international news in 2025, is heading into the new...

For the mapheads

Rebekah White unfolds the little-known story of Thomas Ward, the surveyor who precisely mapped Wellington...

Inspired by a NZGeo story, readers joined the fight for Niue

“You think that they’re dead,” says Frances McClure, one of a team of volunteers helping...

Lacking teeth, moa ate pretty rocks

These lustrous pieces of agate were found on Rangiatea Station in Canterbury, home to Sara...

How to shoot a unicorn

In the early 1970s Wade Doak published a book that would become the bible for...

Chasing joy

For years Ebony Lamb has been the go-to portrait photographer for Wellington artists—writers in particular,...

Full commitment

Richard Robinson and Bill Morris threw themselves into reporting their cover story on eels: icy...

Tech for Tokelau

The Tokelau project started with a phone call during lockdown five years ago. Conservation International...

Behind the photo, a friendship

The photograph of patternmaker Tara Viggo on page 29 was taken by her late friend,...

Get a whiff of that

Nelson writer Naomi Arnold has two features in this issue, and both involve moments of...

Seeking Miss McNeill

Colour photography hit its stride in New Zealand just as debutante balls were fading from...

Child’s-eye view

Photographer Erica Sinclair shot half of this magazine, occasionally with her children in tow—her daughter...

Bug day out

Lily Duval’s first piece for New Zealand Geographic is a news story about the resurgence...

Done in

Kate Evans, flat out reporting her tree ferns feature (page 64). To be fair, this...

Parrot of the people

Craig Mckenzie was surprised that New Zealand Geographic didn’t pick this photograph as part of...

Home and away

Sixteen years ago, Richard Robinson met a Polish woman, Ania Matuszczak, diving at the Poor...

Say what?

Most journalists I know feed their interview recordings to an AI called Otter, then go...

After the flood

In the spring of 2018, for a feature we published in Issue 155, Richard Robinson...

Blue-sky thinking

In writing about the impacts of tourism on the Cook Islands (page 58) Rachel Reeves...

The breaks

Wellington journalist Michelle Duff tackles the big stuff: racism, sexual abuse, the deep, dangerous inequities...

Oink, oink

When you go on a pig hunt in Niue there’s really only one option for...

Life and death in Antarctica

In 1909, Robert Falcon Scott convinced renowned photographer Herbert Ponting to board Terra Nova for...

Get my good side

Most snail shells have a spiral only on the right—the left is more of a...

Writer, meet giraffe

Asia Martusia King’s first piece for this magazine is a History column about bears going...

Pitching in

Cub reporter Harriet Morris got her start as a toddler, assisting her dad, writer Bill...

Glamour shots

As a kid, Richard Robinson was, well, a kid—he threw the odd stone at a...

Tiny pretty things

This is one of hundreds of photographs Richard Robinson took during a highly technical microscopy...

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