Island of the Lost - Documentary (TBA)
A remote island so dangerous that in 1864 two ships wreck on either side of its coast. Only one of the crews will survive…
In the winter of 1864, Captain Musgrave and his four crew aboard the schooner Grafton wreck on icy Auckland Island, an isolated speck deep in the Southern Ocean. It is a godforsaken place, with winds howling at sixty miles an hour, rain three hundred days a year, and an almost impenetrable coastal forest.
Unknown to Captain Musgrave, another ship, the Invercauld, also wrecks on the same island a mere twenty miles away. The nineteen crew of the Invercauld have every advantage that Musgrave lacks: good equipment, stocks and provisions.
Musgrave and his men quickly decide that, if they are to survive at all, rigid Victorian hierarchies won’t work. With their bare hands they build a cabin and, incredibly, a forge, where they manufacture every single nail and most of their tools.
Meanwhile, beyond the island’s impassable cliffs and chasms, the sailors of the Invercauld struggle to adapt. Over the months they succumb to anarchy, despair and cannibalism. Only three of the Invercauld’s crew survive.
Musgrave’s men live for nearly two years on the island before finally building a vessel and setting out into the seas that nearly killed them on one of the most courageous voyages ever.
South Pacific Pictures brings to life this amazing true story by award winning maritime historian Joan Druett. Island of the Lost – a gripping tale of leadership, endurance, human ingenuity and the dangerous line between order and chaos.
