Story: Kermadec Islands

More links and websites

• Crusoes of Sunday Island

  Elsie Morton’s 1957 book about life on Raoul Island, on the Electronic Text Collection website.

• The geology of the Kermadec Islands

  A historic account of the geology of the Kermadec Islands by W. R. B. Oliver, who led the first scientific expedition to the islands in 1910 (PDF, 3.4 MB).

• Kermadec Expedition – Auckland Museum

  A website and blog about the 2011 and 2015 ‘biodiscovery’ expeditions to the Kermadec Islands led by Auckland Museum.

• The Kermadecs Science Symposium proceedings

  Papers from a 2010 symposium about the Kermadec Islands, held at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa in Wellington.

• Volcanic history of Macauley Island, Kermadec Ridge, New Zealand

  A 1996 article from the New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics.

More suggestions and sources

• Doyle, A. C, and others. ‘Volcanic activity and recent uplift on Curtis and Cheeseman Islands, Kermadec Group, Southwest Pacific.’ Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 9, no. 1 (1979): 123–140.

• Haigh, J. B. ‘Raoul (Sunday) Island, Kermadec Group: a brief history.’ Whakatane Historical Society Bulletin 16 (1968): 66–80

• Lloyd, E. F., and Simon Nathan. ‘Geology and tephrochronology of Raoul Island, Kermadec Group, New Zealand.’ New Zealand Geological Survey bulletin 95, no. 104. Wellington: Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, 1981.

• Sykes, W. R., and others. Kermadec Islands flora: a compilation of modern materials about the flora of the Kermadec Islands. Lincoln: Manaaki Whenua, 2000.