Explore Group Limited is a ferry and tourism company located in New Zealand and Australia.
[2] In 2014 Explore began an Auckland to Waiheke Island service.
[3] However, in 2016, plagued by infrastructure and passenger number issues, the company was forced to end the service, leaving Fullers Group the sole passenger ferry company operating services to the island.
[4] Explore began expanding in July 2021 by buying Fullers GreatSights Bay of Islands.
[5] Following the announcement from Fullers Group that on 1 October 2023, ferry services to Birkenhead, Te Onewa/Northcote Pt and Bayswater would be suspended,[6] Explore Group announced on 15 September 2023 that Auckland Transport had contracted them to take over operations of Fuller's cancelled routes[7] - marking Explore's reentry into the public transport industry.