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Call of the wild: New Zealand's southern-most islands are a wilderness hotspot. If you are looking for adventure, exploration, and candid wildlife encounters, seek out some of most isolated islands on Earth. Andrea Vance and Iain McGregor visited New Zealand’s subantarctic islands with Heritage Expeditions. Bare, slippery granite, pummelled by the Southern Ocean, and washed clean of soil and vegetation, the Bounty Islands appear to be one of the most inhospitable places on Earth. Iain McGregor/Stuff Rockhopper penguins scrambled onto the Bounty Islands’ rocky shore. They lie almost 700...

Where are we going with Australia Day? Normal text size Advertisement As soon as I stepped off the tour bus the tears appeared. The other Aussies and Brits started to cry. The Turkish tour guide looked teary while the Americans looked solemn but puzzled. “Was there a war here?” one asked in hushed tones. Anzac Cove in Gallipoli, Turkey. Credit:AP I have never felt more patriotic than during that visit to Anzac Cove. The little beach fringed by the low sandstone wall, the schoolbook history of the failed Anzac campaign suddenly alive and overwhelming, the pride in Australia and Turkey as t...