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This map shows the sites of six of the seven shipwrecks with castaways on the Auckland Islands. Click on the names, or the shipwreck icons, to see the sites or the huts of the survivors of the Grafton, Invercauld, General Grant, Derry Castle, Anjou and Dundonald. The seventh wreck was the Compadre.
- Māori
This map shows the sites of six of the seven shipwrecks with...
- Survival
The Derry Castle men constructed a primitive wooden punt to...
- Castaways
Shipwrecks. There were 11 shipwrecks from 1833 to 1908 in...
- Wrecked on a Reef
This cover is from the 1880 edition of Wrecked on a reef,...
- Māori
A few ribs of Auckland Island's earliest recorded shipwreck, the Grafton, lie in the beach gravel at the southern end of Carnley Harbour. The anchors rest on the seabed out from the shore. Nearby the remnant of a stone fireplace is all that is left of the Epigwaitt; a hut the castaways built using the ship's remains.
In 1864, castaways from two storm-wrecked ships, the Grafton and the Invercauld, landed on opposite ends of Auckland Island. Survival became a daily challenge. Each group tackled it differently: one fell to violence and cannibalism, while the other became a close-knit brotherhood.
Grafton was a 56-ton schooner sailing out of Sydney during the 1860s that was wrecked on 3 January 1864 in the north arm of Carnley Harbour, Auckland Island, one of the New Zealand Subantarctic Islands, nearly 480 kilometres (300 mi) south of the South Island.
What is left of the Auckland Island's earliest recorded shipwreck and the remnant fireplace of the survivors’ hut are found at Carnley Harbour (north arm). A few ribs of Auckland Island's earliest recorded shipwreck, the Grafton, lie in the beach gravel at the southern end of Carnley Harbour.
In 1833 wreckage found on the Auckland Islands proved beyond doubt that one or perhaps two large vessels had been wrecked there between February and August of that year. The wreck was discovered by a party of sealers stationed on the island from the Caroline, commanded by Captain Anglem.
8 Μαρ 2024 · On 12 November 1863, the 56-ton schooner Grafton sailed from Sydney on a sealing expedition among the islands of the Southern Ocean. Six months, 12 months, then 18 months passed without any sighting of the ship or its crew.
