Seasons & Episodes
Beneath the Surface
The Chatham Island archipelago is 45 minutes ahead and 800 kilometres east of Aotearoa. The land, the sea and the people
In the Beginning
These remote islands have a profoundly beautiful and devastatingly sad history that is still felt today. A history so ve
Kaitiaki - Looking after each other
Living on a rock in the middle of the ocean, 800 kilometres from Aotearoa, means the islanders have to be resilient, and
Subsistence
The main Chatham Island is the big smoke for the 46 inhabitants of Pitt Island. There are no shops, no petrol stations a
Kaitiaki - Looking after the land, sea and people
The land and the sea is everything on the Chatham Islands. Looking after the land and the sea, and also each other, is a
Manuhiri - Tourists have crash-landed and not everyone is happy
As tourists flock to this 'undiscovered paradise' the locals wonder how tourism will change the lives they've always liv
Lost and Found
Today is the beginning of a new story as Moriori rebuild their cultural traditions, language, identity and whakapapa, pi