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he hut’s almost invisible from the sea but the researchers
say they spend most of their time in a bivvy where the birds
are – on top of the ridge that traverses the island.
“We’ve got to keep an eye on the weather – one time the
wind got up from nowhere and we had to stay there for a
couple of days because we would have been blown of the
island if we’d try to walk down.”
Recreation is sharing a bottle of beer and crossword
puzzle in the hut. We’re the last people they’ll see in a while
and it’s hugs all round before we turn and head south for
Campbell Island.
We’re soon south of the Roaring Forties and ascending
the parallels of the Screaming Fifties. Luckily it’s pretty
benign for 24 hours or so until we nose into Perseverance
Harbour – the long inlet that almost bisects the island.
he disused Metservice base and adjacent DOC hut look
like cardboard cartons dumped in the scrub. he wharf has
been deemed “unsafe” and the planking’s been removed, so
we nose the laden RIB in among some slimy rocks and lug
buckets and boxes up to the hut.
By the time we head back down harbour, a 25-40 knotFAR LEFT And pleased
to meet you too.
Author Lindsay Wright
greets the locals.
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used during more
well-equipped
expeditions to get
researchers to remote
spots.
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of the settlements
and graveyards ofer a
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