I was proud of myself for finding this, until I realized the song is probably not about the Auckland Islands. Blame my ignorance of NZ geography. Maybe you'll like it anyway.

Copied from here. There's lots of stuff on that page: sheet music, a midi file, information about the album it's from, the songwriter, etc.

AUCKLAND TO THE BLUFF
(Rudy Sunde 1975?)

I left the city when just a lad.
Times were hard and no work to be had,
So I went to sea in the Flora Belle.
Little did I know 'twas a ship from hell.

The ship was old and leaking at the seams,
A dirty old tub, somewhat broad in the beam.
Its sails were torn. Some planks were rotten.
It lay at the wharf a-gently rockin'.

CHORUS: I've sailed from Auckland to the Bluff,
A thousand miles and that's enough--
A thousand miles on the heaving sea.
Glory Hal-le-lu'! That's enough for me.

We set sail on the evening tide.
It was early on a Saturday night.
All went well till the Tiri light,
And then, by God, I got a fright.

The ship was hit by a big beam sea.
Christ! I thought it's all up for me.
She rolled and she lolloped like a big tin drum.
Hell! I swore my time had come. CHORUS

"Shorten sails," the skipper cried.
"Shorten the sails or you buggers will all die.
Get aloft, get aloft, right up the mast.
Get aloft, get aloft, and get up there fast."

Never in my life had I been so scared.
Never in my life had I wished I was dead.
But I climbed up the mast and I shortened sail,
Then I climbed down again and was sick o'er the rail. CHORUS

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On this page you can hear an .mp3 of a different group (The Corsairs) singing it.

There is some discussion of this song in an old thread called Lyr Req: Sea Shanty, but they failed to get the complete lyrics. (Anyway, the request was for a different song.)