The Lonely Landscape of the Chatham Islands, where the coronavirus probably won’t ever arrive

My fourth blog post on the Chathams. From Waitangi I headed north again, toward freaky lonesome volcanoes and wandering cattle.

Mary Jane Walker
A Maverick Traveller
8 min readFeb 29, 2020

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FROM Waitangi, the bustle-free capital of the Chathams, I headed north again. This was the area with freaky lonesome volcanoes and wandering cattle.

The roads are lonesome themselves, and long. They often traverse unfenced private or tribal land, whence the wandering cattle.

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Mary Jane Walker
A Maverick Traveller

Traveller, journalist, author of 18 books and of 300 blog posts on Medium and on my website a-maverick.com.