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Flowing around it [Mayor Island], they say, is a warm tropical current, which perhaps explains why the world record of big-game fish was caught here last season.– Narrator Selwyn Toogood
Fishy tales from one of New Zealand's most popular...
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Silent movie filmed partly on Mayor Island
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