The Auckland Islands lie about 560 km south of the New Zealand mainland, a scattering of windswept subantarctic land buffeted by some of the roughest seas in the world. Sealers and whalers entering these waters in the early nineteenth century found the islands to be a place where ships could easily be wrecked and crews marooned for months with little to eat.

The Auckland Islands lie about 560 km south of the New Zealand mainland, a scattering of windswept subantarctic land buffeted by some of the roughest seas in the world. Sealers…

On a remote, windswept archipelago far south of New Zealand, a small herd of pigs lived out more than two centuries as one of the world’s most isolated feral populations. Their…