6.30PM News - Raoul People

Raoul Island is nearly 1000 kilometres northeast of New Zealand. For this Christmas Day 1988 report, TV One's Kurt Sanders paid a visit to the four-person NZ meteorological team serving there (plus Smelly the dog — “the unchallenged King of the Kermadecs”). Sanders follows future One News weather presenter Karen Olsen (then Karen Fisher) as she milks the cow, and heads through the nikau to take readings in the crater of Raoul’s active volcano. The uniquely-evolved island is now the Department of Conservation's most remote reserve.

Very few have spent Christmas Day in a more isolated spot.

– Presenter Tom Bradley

Key Cast & Crew

Karen Olsen

Subject

Kurt Sanders

Reporter

Tom Bradley

Presenter