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Wild weather - SH1 reopening but residents face devastating scenes at home NZ Defence Force rescue a Buller resident. Photo / NZ Defence Force Wild weather - SH1 reopening but residents face devastating scenes at home Sun, 18 Jul 2021, 9:24AM State Highway 1 in Marlborough is reopening and evacuated residents from three settlements have been told they can return home from lunchtime on Sunday. But on the other side of the island, West Coast residents face heartache, with flood-ravaged streets and homes. The Marlborough District Council said State Highway 1, including the Wa...

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 Heritage Expeditions, a wildlife and Southern Ocean tour. He took along his mum, Wellington Oriental rug...