Want Relief – School Journal Level 3 May 2020

The Auckland Islands, a New Zealand territory in the Southern Ocean, were the site of nine shipwrecks in the nineteenth century. Paul Mason uses this as a starting point for his fictional story about Nell, who becomes a castaway with several others and must play her part in keeping their precious fire going.

Keywords: Auckland Islands, castaway, family, General Grant, historic fiction, history, ingenuity, kākāriki, marooned, Motu Maha, rescue, resilience, responsibility, shipwreck, survival