Coastwatcher Lookouts on  Auckland Island/ Motu Maha/Maungahuka
Channel: Department of Conservation
Date: 2015-02-22

Following an event with a German merchant ship reloading her boilers with rata from the Auckland Island a ‘Cape Expedition’ saw stations established at various positions in both the Auckland Islands and Campbell Island during WWII to protect the New Zealand subantarctic islands. Men were  stationed at the islands for the duration of the war.