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Protecting a flame

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Protecting a flame

This illustration by Alphonse de Neuville, from F. E. Raynal’s Wrecked on a reef (1880), shows the Grafton survivors guarding their flame. Fire for warmth and cooking was an essential requirement for survival.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: F. E. Raynal, Wrecked on a reef, or, twenty months among the Auckland Isles. London: T. Nelson, 1880, p. 53

by Alphonse de Neuville

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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How to cite this page

Ken Scadden, Castaways – Survival, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/artwork/7569/protecting-a-flame (accessed 10 June 2026).

Story by Ken Scadden, published 2 March 2009.