Anyone been to Macquarie Island or the NZ subantarctic islands?

[salty.dog]

Has anyone sailed to Macquarie Island or any of the NZ subantarctic islands? Would be interesting to hear some stories

[atoll]

we met a very nice lady naturalist that spent 6 months living in a small hut there who did a survey on penguins.
she showed us her slides and gave a short lecture
it is a pretty barren place ,open anchorage,supply ship visited every 3 months or so.
think it is not open to visitors other than scientists and weather people with permission from AUS/ NZ gov.

[El Pinguino]

Nope... but I do know you need to have a very good reason to legally visit the NZ islands..

The Erlangen ( Erlangen was Ohm's 'ome town by the way ) story should be better known..

'Sea Chase' a 1955 movie with John Wayne was loosely based on Erlangen's voyage..
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048593...nm_flmg_act_49

There is also a good book out there about the wreck of the Invercauld...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auckland_Islands

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Expedition

[Fore and Aft]

Salty Dog there is a great book called "The sea and the snow" by Philip Temple. It's about an Australian sailing expedition in the 1960s to Heard Island to climb Mawson Peak. Bill Tilman was the skipper! There are also some great books about the Auckland islands and the shipwrecks that happened there.
My mother has been on some of the NZ sub Antarctic islands due to working with the NZ department of conservation.
Cheers