Chatham Islanders (2024)
Season 1
Experience the community, the history, the isolation, and the connection of life on the remote Chatham Islands, where the land and sea govern the day to lives of the inhabitants.
Released March 14, 2024
Episode 26 min
None+
S1E1 - Beneath the Surface
The Chatham Island archipelago is 45 minutes ahead and 800 kilometres east of Aotearoa. The land, the sea and the people are ruggedly beautiful - and there's more to these islands than what you see.
March 14, 2024, midnight
S1E2 - In the Beginning
These remote islands have a profoundly beautiful and devastatingly sad history that is still felt today. A history so very rich, and so very dark.
March 21, 2024, midnight
S1E3 - Kaitiaki - Looking after each other
Living on a rock in the middle of the ocean, 800 kilometres from Aotearoa, means the islanders have to be resilient, and over the years looking out for each other has become a way of life.
March 28, 2024, midnight
S1E4 - Subsistence
The main Chatham Island is the big smoke for the 46 inhabitants of Pitt Island. There are no shops, no petrol stations and it's a whole different world.
April 4, 2024, midnight
S1E5 - Kaitiaki - Looking after the land, sea and people
The land and the sea is everything on the Chatham Islands. Looking after the land and the sea, and also each other, is an essential part of life on this isolated archipelago.
April 11, 2024, midnight
S1E6 - Manuhiri - Tourists have crash-landed and not everyone is happy
As tourists flock to this 'undiscovered paradise' the locals wonder how tourism will change the lives they've always lived
April 18, 2024, midnight
S1E7 - Lost and Found
Today is the beginning of a new story as Moriori rebuild their cultural traditions, language, identity and whakapapa, piecing it back together for future generations.
April 25, 2024, midnight
Network: TVNZ+
Episode Runtime: 26 min.
Season Runtime: 182 min.
Released: March 14, 2024
Last Air Date: April 25, 2024, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: NR
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