Auckland feels like several cities jammed together on the same narrow tongue of land. On one coast, there’s a calm harbor studded with islands ... like a culinary map of the country.

That afternoon, the last scrap of 3G loads enough Google Map to show our dot sinking ... and the sea's quietened in the lee of the Auckland Islands. There are only about 10,000 NZ sea lions ...

To get to one of Auckland's islands, you'll need to hop aboard one of the city's ferries. The Auckland Airport (AKL), which sits just 13 miles south of downtown Auckland, can be reached by bus ...

Maya Wei-Haas Studying Auckland’s volcanic caves could help give clues to the region’s volcanic future, explains speleologist Peter Crossley, who has led many efforts to map and protect the ...