METRO Magazine article - May 2003

Written by Simon Farrell-Green
Aerial Photography by Gareth Eyres.  Other photographs by Andrew Coffey

Reproduced with permission from METRO Magazine - Subject to copyright in its entirety.

THE LAST FRONTIER

Last, loneliest, loveliest, Great Barrier Island is a mystical, mythical place, the last big land mass between Auckland and the vast Pacific.  For years a haven for dropouts and eccentrics, it's been discovered by well-off Aucklanders who are paying high prices for land even as the island's resident population drops and jobs dry up.

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