Contents: James Braund: Introduction: Ferdinand Hochstetter in Context - Horst Dippel: Conflicting Anthropological Concepts: Georg Forster and Johann Reinhold Forster on New Zealand - Peter Clayworth: The Broken-Hearted Botanist visits the 'Land of Crimes and Horrors': Baron Carl von Hügel in New Zealand, March 1834 - Ivo Holmqvist: Sven Berggren's 1873-1875 Journey to New Zealand - Elliot W. Dawson/Hilmar W. Duerbeck: Nazi Gold, Courageous Sailors, and Intrepid Astronomers: German. Connections with the Auckland Islands - James Bade: Hermann Krone's Record of the German Scientific Expedition to the Auckland Islands to Observe the Transit of Venus, 1874-1875 - David Bade: Place Names and Human Contact with the Auckland Islands: The 1874 German Expedition in Context - Hermann Mückler: Utopias and Visions: Austria's Unsuccessful Attempts at Overseas Colonisation in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, and the Role of the Novara Expedition - David G. L. Weiss: The Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara , 1857-1859: Economic and Colonial Motivations and the Forgotten Photographer - Christa Riedl-Dorn: Austrian Scientists in New Zealand - with an Emphasis on Three Lesser Known Members (Frauenfeld, Jelinek, Selleny) of the Novara Expedition - Robert Pils: Botany and Botanists (Ferdinand Hochstetter, Georg Frauenfeld, Anton Jelinek, Eduard Schwarz) on the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara - Helge Selleny: The Painter of the Novara , Joseph Selleny (1824-1875) - James Braund: Doing Fieldwork in a Young Colony: Ferdinand Hochstetter in New Zealand - Michael Johnston: 'I have called it Dunite': Dr Hochstetter in Nelson - 4 August to 2 October 1859 - Rolf W. Brednich: Augustus Koch (1834-1901) and Hochstetter's North Island Expedition - John Webster: Mr Hamel The Photographist - Michael Organ: Ferdinand Hochstetter in Australia, 1858-1859