Open water between Australia and New Zealand. The Tasman Sea runs through several stories in the archive. In 1931 Francis Chichester, then 29, set out to make the first solo east-to-west flight across it in a Gipsy Moth seaplane named Madame Elijah. January 13, 1965. Qantas flight 363, a Lockheed L-188 Electra bound for Sydney, was about 250 miles off the New Zealand coast at 20,000 feet, shortly after sunset. In 2019 the lights at Karekare Beach appeared on its coast, about 35 km west of central Auckland.
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