Dr Kura Paul-Burke returns to Whakaari

"For us, Whakaari is our whaea, she is our tupuna, and also a place of our mahinga kai. I didn't realise how much I'd missed her..."

Dr Kura Paul-Burke of Ngāti Awa and Associate Professor at University of Waikato, describes her connections with Whakaari/White Island while revisiting the area on board the RV Tangaroa.