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Read what it's like to live and work on Raoul Island from some of the DOC workers stationed there.
Please note: Raoul Island diary entries can now be found on DOC's Conservation blog.
Read about volunteer Gina Waibl's experience of living on Raoul Island.
Find out more about recent safety training exercises held on Raoul Island, as related by volunteer Bas Zinsmeister.
Read about life on Raoul Island from the perspective of two volunteers, Neil Brown and Gaye Eden.
Find out more about mosses and other bryophytes on Raoul Island from PhD student David Meagher.
Read about life on Raoul Island from Chauncy Ardell's perspective in this month's diary entry.
Read about some of the interesting and unique native plants the weed team encounters on Raoul Island in this month's diary entry by Annie Blackmore.
Sian Potier gives us some insights into the antics of the birds on the island.
Read about the deep blue ocean that surrounds and helps shape the island and it's occupants in this month's entry by Toby Shanley.
Read about Christmas celebrations and life on Raoul from a volunteer's perspective in this month's diary entry by Greer Gilmer.
Read what it's like for the new team to settle in on Raoul Island in this month's diary entry, by Dave Whitelaw.
And so it begins - the next group embark on their year long journey to Raoul Island. Read about it in this month's diary entry by Team Leader, John Ballantyne.
Hear about returning to the mainland after a stint as a volunteer... and about preparations for a return as staff member.
Robert Birks explores romantic notions of living on a remote Pacific island in this month's diary entry.
Read about the history of Raoul island and some of the special plant and bird life in this diary entry by Chay Cotter.
Watch an animated cartoon about the weed programme on Raoul Island in this month's diary entry, by Alison Botha.
Read the Raoul Island diary entry for May, written by Patrick Liddy.
Read the Raoul Island diary entry for April 2008 by Karen Baird (DOC) and Lieutenant Gerald Bradfield (Navy)
Read the Raoul Island diary entry for March 2008 by Tom Hitchon.
Read the Raoul Island diary entry for February 2008 by Gilbert Mingam.
Read the Raoul Island diary entry for January 2008 by Veronika Frank.
Read the first installment about the trip to Raoul and settling in to life on the Island, by Margie Grant-Caplan.
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