6 Jun 2025

The Voyage of the Saint Jean Baptiste

From Kelly Tarlton's Final Treasure Hunt, 5:00 am on 6 June 2025

A French ship on an illicit smuggling mission, a crew dying from scurvy and 125-year-old map to a dangerous island known as New Zealand. Our would-be treasure hunters find out how the anchors of the St Jean Baptiste came to be left on the seabed of Doubtless Bay.

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