The Tawaki Project’s Bounty-Antipodes Expedition 2025/26 ran from 25 November 2025 to 24 February 2026, taking the research team to two of New Zealand’s most remote subantarctic outposts – the Bounty Islands and Antipodes Island. Aboard the research vessel Evohe, the team conducted GPS tracking deployments on chick-rearing Erect-crested and Eastern Rockhopper penguins across multiple...
After another expedition to the sub-antarctic Bounty and Antipodes Islands came to a close in late December 2024, the team dove head first into reporting season. And as with the previous expedition, the amount of new information gathered was once again massive so that the resulting report approached the dimensions of a novella. There is...
During the past two expeditions to the subantarctic islands, our team was joined by journalists from both Radio New Zealand and NZ Geographic. During the 2022 expedition, NZ Geographic publisher James Frankham and award winning photographer Richie Robinson documented our work on the Bounty Islands, while in January 2024, Claire Concannon came along when the...
The feature article about the expedition to the subantarctic Bounty Islands is New Zealand Geographic...
