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Tom Neale
Thomas Francis "Tom" Neale (November 6, 1902 – November 27, 1977) was a New Zealander bushcraft and survival enthusiast who spent much of his life in the Cook Islands and 16 years in three sessions living alone on the island of Anchorage in the Suwarrow atoll, which was the basis of his popular autobiography.
==Early life==
Thomas Francis Neale was born in Wellington, New Zealand, but moved to Greymouth while still a baby and then to Timaru at the age of seven. His parents were Frank Frederick Neale and Emma Sarah Neale (née Chapman). He decided to join the Royal New Zealand Navy as a young man, but at 18 was too old to become an apprentice seaman, and signed on as an apprentice engineer instead. For the next four years, Neale travelled through the Pacific Islands on Navy ships, before buying his way out of the Navy to have greater freedom to see the islands for himself. He spent the next six years wandering from island to island, taking short term jobs on inter-island trade ships, clearing bush or planting bananas.
After a few months back in Timaru in 1928, Neale returned to the Pacific and settled in Moorea, Tahiti until 1943, supporting himself with odd jobs and enjoying a private life. He was then offered a job as a relieving storekeeper in the Cook Islands; a job which involved running small shops in various islands while their normal keepers were on leave. As storekeeper he was also an advisor to the local communities. He met with the author Robert Dean Frisbie in Rarotonga, and was entranced by his tales of the atoll of Suwarrow, where Frisbie had lived briefly. In 1945, Neale had the opportunity to visit Suwarrow briefly when a ship dropped in stores for the World War II coast-watchers living there. He decided that this was the place he wanted to live.
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