A trip into Dusky Sound in 1974 led to Victoria Jaenecke's lifelong connection with Richard Henry.
Appointed in 1894 as caretaker of Dusky Sound's Resolution Island, Henry spent 14 years - much of it by himself - in the remote landscape where he fiercely defended kākāpō and kiwi against a tide of mustelids sweeping the mainland.
Jaenecke's parents John and Susanne Hill used Richard Henry's notes and letters to navigate their way through the sounds in the 70s - with a young Victoria in tow - and later published a biography on his life in 1987.
Following the death of her mother in 2014, Jaenecke and her father last year published Letters of a Naturalist: The Field Accounts of Richard Henry of Resolution Island.
Photo: Supplied
Transcript
A trip into Dusky Sound in 1974 led to Victoria Jaenecke's lifelong connection with Richard Henry. Appointed in 1894 as caretaker of Dusky Sound's Resolution Island, Henry spent 14 years - much of it by himself - in the remote landscape where he fiercely defended kākāpō and kiwi against a tide of mustelids sweeping the mainland.
Jaenecke's parents John and Susanne Hill used Richard Henry's notes and letters to navigate their way through the sounds in the 70s - with a young Victoria in tow - and later published a biography on his life in 1987. Following the death of her mother in 2014, Jaenecke and her father last year published Letters of a Naturalist: The Field Accounts of Richard Henry of Resolution Island.
To embed this content on your own webpage, cut and paste the following:
See terms of use.
