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Bluebridge's new ferry has sailed from Europe and is due in the the capital on Thursday.
The search for Captain Cook’s legendary ship, the Endeavour, has led to the coast of ... Rhode Island! The Australian National Maritime Museum has recently published a final report documenting their ...
WELLINGTON – New Zealand has suspended millions of dollars in budget funding to the Cook Islands, it said on June 19, as the relationship between the two constitutionally linked countries ...
New Zealand has paused nearly $20m of core sector support funding for the Cook Islands, after its government signed partnership agreements with China earlier this year without consulting New Zealand.
17-Year-Old Girl Suffers Thousands of Jellyfish Stings During 14-Hour Swim Across Cook Strait "The entire time I was just fighting myself mentally to kind of get over that fear," Maya Merhige said ...
“So the entire time I was just fighting myself mentally to kind of get over that fear.” Maya Merhige recently completed a 14-hour swim across the 13.67-mile Cook Strait in New Zealand.
Maya Merhige recently completed a 14-hour swim across the 13.67-mile Cook Strait in New Zealand, battling through strong currents and jellyfish stings.
The Cook Strait brings her to four of the Ocean’s Seven Swims completed (Catalina, Molokai, English Channel). She is the youngest woman to swim the Catalina Channel, which the native of Berkeley ...
A Kiwi deputy principal plans to swim across the Cook Strait in March to raise funds for Ovarian Cancer Foundation New Zealand after being inspired by a close friend who received a stage 3 diagnosis.
Theoretically, the Cook Strait tunnel would be approximately 25-30 kilometres, drastically reducing the three-to-four-hour sailing time between the islands.
Wild weather during New Zealand ’s peak summer holiday period has disrupted travel for thousands on ferries that cross the sea between the main islands. The problems wrought by huge swells and ...
A Cook Strait tunnel would dramatically reduce the three- to four-hour sailing time between the North Island, home to 75% of the population, and the South. Get the Breaking News newsletter!