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Tom Neale's autobiography
Tom Neale's autobiography

...that New Zealander Tom Neale lived for a total of sixteen years on the otherwise uninhabited atoll of Suwarrow?

...that the world's only two towns called Matamata - in New Zealand and Tunisia - were both sites of filming for major blockbuster movies?

...that whenever trade unionist Bill Andersen and conservative Prime Minister Rob Muldoon flew on the same domestic flight, unionist staff arranged for them to sit next to each other?

...that Te Whanga Lagoon, on Chatham Island, is large enough that it could contain all the other islands in the Chatham Islands chain?