We were at off the Forty-Fours last week! It's one of the important breeding sits for Northern Royal Albatross and Buller's Albatross🐥🌊! #Seabirds #ChathamIslands #NZ

Chatham Island wind farm to slash power prices, cut carbon emissions It took two years to build the three wind turbines, storage battery and other infrastructure on the remote archipelago.

Great news for a community of just 600 that is significantly challenged by its isolation 800km east of the NZ mainland.

Chatham Island wind farm to slash power prices, cut carbon emissions
#ChathamIslands #agsky #energysky #windfarm
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Archaeologists examine evidence for Indigenous long-distance voyaging below 50°S — Phys.org In a study published in the Journal of Coastal and Island Archaeology, Dr. Thomas Leppard and his colleagues, John Cherry and Atholl Anderson, evaluate the evidence for pre-European long-distance voya...

“The #Māori were known as great #navigators who inhabited #NewZealand and the nearby #ChathamIslands.”

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New ship for Chatham Islands sails closer A new 78-metre vessel that will serve the Chatham Islands from 2027 will be supplied by a company confirmed by the government today.

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New ship for #ChathamIslands sails closer.

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Chatham Islands building materials rusting 50 times faster than rest of NZ "Oh we buy a car, bring it over from the mainland to the island, and within three years it's rusted out."

Fest. of Science on the Chathams 12-18 August. Hopefully more of these kinds of stories connected to that. Fascinating place. chathamislands.co.nz/festival-of-...

#ChathamIslands building materials rusting 50 times faster than rest of NZ
#Agsky #energysky #greensky
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Chatham Islands waka find detailed in new report Questions around the exact age and size of the waka remain, but experts say the find is of global significance.

This waka is turning out to be a treasure - a voyaging waka that travelled the oceans - amazing.
#ChathamIslands waka find detailed in new report
#PacificExplorers #TheGreatNavigators
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Energy and shipping decisions needed before meatworks - Chatham Islands mayor Monique Croon says energy and shipping decisions are needed before a meatworks supported by the government can proceed.

Cart before the horse: 5k farm animals are destroyed because the ship to transport them is worn out. The govt cancels a new ship but offers meatworks which also needs reliable shipping.
Energy and shipping decisions needed before meatworks - #ChathamIslands mayor
#agsky
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Now it’s 2025 in the Chatham Islands. I just love the quirkier time zone offsets, the half hour and 45 minute offsets. They’re so fascinating.
Anyway. Happy 2025 to them!
#NewYear2025 #HappyNewYear #ChathamIslands

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This could be a real adventure. Certainly an interesting one for your CV.
Five month farming stint in the #ChathamIslands, is this Aotearoa's most isolated job?
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The disrupted service sees farmers on the islands unable to get stock to the mainland, meaning little to no income for 12 mths & the island now seriously overstocked.

Delaying of #ChathamIslands supply ship in Timaru ‘a kick in the guts’
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Introducing Imber’s petrel: a new recently extinct seabir... New Zealand has a new species of seabird. Te Papa scienti...

Introducing Imber’s petrel. Now extinct. Tragic. blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2015/10/21/introducing-i... via @te_papa #ChathamIslands #birds