Auckland Islands bicentennial

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Auckland Islands Writers’ Forum

Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington

10.00am-12.30pm, Saturday 19 August 2006

Programme 

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Elliott Dawson:  Fiction is stranger than truth: tales of the Auckland Islands as a literary stimulus.

An informal look at how true stories of event at the Auckland Islands have spawned some very strange works of fiction – novels, poems, plays, films and music – all showing how a good yarn can be made even better, at least for some people.

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Christiane Mortelier:  Jules Verne’s “LincolnIsland” in “MysteriousIsland” (1874), and its source in Raynal’s “Wrecked on a Reef” (1870).

Revealing the way that Raynal’s account of the Grafton wreck influenced the writings of one of the world’s greatest writers of adventure and futuristic stories.

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Joan Druett:  (Title to be confirmed)

Examining the role of leadership and brotherhood in the death and survival of the Grafton and Invercauld castaways – a comparison of two experiences.

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Ken Scadden:  The gold of the General Grant.

Describing the writing of a new book on the famous General Grant wreck (as a companion to Grant Eunson’s earlier book on the subject), based in part on research conducted by the late Madeline Allen, author of “Wake of the Invercauld”.

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Brett Fotheringham:  Pre-1850 habitation at the AucklandIslands.

Discussion of some aspects of early human contact with the Auckland Islands, based on personal research.

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Mary McEwen:  Charles Fleming’s Cape Expedition diary.

Excerpts from the forthcoming publication of her father Charles Fleming’s diaries and drawings from his year spent coastwatching at the Auckland Islands during the wartime Cape Expedition.

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Rowley Taylor:  Some experiences in writing “Straight through from London”.

Recounting what it’s like for a biologist turned historian to write and publish a comprehensive account of the Antipodes and Bounty Islands.

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Alan Knowles: Doug Knowles Cape Expedition diaries

Describing his aspirations for publishing the diaries and records of his father Doug Knowles, a member of the Cape Expedition posted to Tagua Station No. 2 at the Auckland Islands in 1941, and Officer-in-Charge of Station No. 3 at Campbell Island in 1943.

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