The New Zealand Herald newspaper have, over the past couple of weeks, been publishing a series of articles in their weekly travel supplement written by one of their travel journalists who recently visited the Chatham Islands, about two hours flying time (by Convair 580 of Air Chathams) east of the NZ mainland islands.
Yesterday, they published an article about the ex-RNZAF Short Sunderland Mk.V that locals are planning to restore and turn into an aviation museum. The article was accompanied by two photographs. You can access the article online here....
Chatham Islands: Re enacting air adventures - Travel - NZ Herald News
Also on the NZ Herald's website is an image gallery containing nine colour photographs (including the two published with the print version of the article), with some of the photographs being historic images of when the holed Sunderland was pulled out of the Te Whanga Lagoon (where it had run aground) onto the land....
Reassembling Chatham Island's aviation history - Travel - NZ Herald Pictures
The historic photographs are amazing!