Haven’t heard of them? It’s okay; you’re not the only one. The remote Pacific Ocean archipelago near the international date line is technically part of New Zealand. And as New Zealand’s borders remain ...

Two groups totalling almost 500 pilot whales were stranded, officials said. Hundreds of pilot whales that beached on the Chatham Islands in the last week died of natural causes or were euthanized, ...

Almost 100 whales have died on the beaches of a remote collection of islands in the Pacific Ocean following a mass stranding event. According to the New Zealand Department of Conservation (DOC), staff ...

24-year-old Jade Kahukore-Dixon was diving 500 miles east of New Zealand's South Island when the attack happened Gabrielle Rockson is a staff writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She joined PEOPLE in 2023 and ...

Hundreds of pilot whales washed up on the remote shores of New Zealand’s Chatham Islands in two separate “mass stranding” events that occurred just days apart and deeply “affected” the people who live ...

The Chatham Islands in New Zealand, which are surrounded by sharks, have seen 4,000 whales perish on their shores in the past 120 years. Over the past week, two mass pilot whale strandings have ...

A remote collection of islands off the coast of New Zealand recorded its first-ever cases of COVID-19 more than two years into the pandemic. Monique Croon, mayor of the archipelago named Chatham ...