Herbert Escott News Today

A New Zealand fur seal relaxes on the rocks at Antipodes Island. “I had no idea that there was so much more down there; you think of it as just ocean,” he says. “Fundamentally though, it really is. I remember mucking around on Google Maps and – cripes – was I zooming in to pick up any landmass.” But in October last year, the 34-year-old won the 2020 New Zealand Geographic Photographer of the Year. With the prize came a trip to the Chatham Islands and subantarctics​ with Heri...