Great Barrier Island

A boatie has gone missing near Aotea Great Barrier Island.

“However, conditions have been challenging and at this stage no one has been located,” the police spokeswoman said. “Enquiries are ongoing to locate one person aboard a water vessel near Great Barrier Island,” she said. Throughout the morning, the Police Maritime Unit, with assistance from the Eagle helicopter, had attempted to approach the boat.

One person is being searched for near Aotea, Great Barrier Island after a boat made a distress call at 2:15am.

The Police Maritime Unit, with assistance from Eagle [helicopter], attempted to approach the boat throughout the morning. "Some of the gusts are quite strong," she said. "The police Eagle helicopter located the vessel approximately 15 miles southeast of the Hen and Chicken Islands," staff said.

Searches for a boatie who has potentially gone missing near Auckland's Aotea Great Barrier Island are being hampered by Cyclone Gabrielle.

"Conditions have been challenging" for the search amid Cyclone Gabrielle, police said.

"No sign of any persons on board. 15 miles southeast of the Hen and Chicken Islands. "Police will make further attempts to approach the vessel when conditions allow."

As of 6:30pm Monday Cyclone Gabrielle was about 100km north east of Great Barrier Island and tracking southwards. The centre of the storm has weakened a ...

Auckland gets a lot of attention due to the size of the population – and the recent severe weather – but many regions in the east will have wetter weather, with over 500mm possible if Gabrielle slows down. The fact this intensification is going to occur as Gabrielle approaches the Auckland and Coromandel Peninsula regions makes it more problematic and complicated. That’s why across Monday night and Tuesday we’ll be seeing the peak of this storm moving through, with conditions easing around Thursday and Friday. These winds are likely to be pulled back in from the Tasman Sea as the storm slowly moves away from the top of the North Island over Tuesday meaning western areas in particular maybe quite exposed to damaging gusts and power outages. This means severe weather is expanding and strengthening over much of the North Island as we go into Tuesday. Severe gales are also going to continue on for many in these two regions (but in some locations they may ease back a little, as the winds tilt from southerly to south-south-westerly.

Residents in New Zealand's largest city of Auckland and the surrounding area are being told to brace for more heavy rain, flooding and gale-force winds, ...

Around 50 apartments in Auckland have been evacuated because of fears a century-old steel framed tower could collapse. Last month Auckland and surrounding areas were hit by record rainfall that sparked floods and killed four people. [New Zealand’s](https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/10/weather/new-zealand-tropical-cyclone-flooding-intl/index.html) largest city of Auckland and the surrounding area are being told to brace for more heavy rain, flooding and gale-force winds, and some homes are being evacuated, as Cyclone Gabrielle nears the country’s coast.