Saw a news article the other day about a US named ship, sinking in a cave along the cliffs of Auckland Islands in 1866 and had to know more. Survivors (what was left, after a year and a half of being stuck on non-inhabited island, in a rough environment) knew where it crashed and sunk. Yet no one has ever been able to retrieve the gold and zinc with high gold content. A genealogy site has old newspaper articles, reports, etc and there is even a map of the island showing where other wrecks happened, too, and the named ships. The islands are so harsh that, for awhile, animals were placed on them for potential wreck victims, but now provisions are used and the islands are checked every 6 months just in case someone is stranded there. NZ permits thunters - if they want to try their luck. Sue
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