Where Was Alone Australia Season 2 Filmed? The Location, Explained

Alone Australia season 2's location comes with a catch: despite the show's branding and its all-Australian cast, it was filmed in Fiordland, on the South Island of New Zealand (known to Māori as Te Waipounamu), not in Australia at all. That switch was confirmed by SBS's own coverage and independent recap sites, and it explains why season 2 looks and behaves differently from the Tasmanian terrain used in season 1.

Terrain and climate

Fiordland is genuinely one of the wettest places on the planet. Annual rainfall ranges from roughly 1,200mm around Te Anau to as much as 8,000mm at Milford Sound, driven by the same Roaring Forties westerlies that pick up moisture over the Tasman Sea and dump it as the air is forced up over Fiordland's mountains. That produces a temperate rainforest with fjords, steep cliffs, and dense, unique plant life, plus roughly 200 rain-days a year. The south of the region runs colder than the north, and conditions can shift within a single day. For a contestant, that means fire-starting and shelter-drying are a constant fight rather than an occasional problem, since the ground and timber rarely get a real chance to dry out.

Why this location wears a field down

Season 2's field averaged 31.5 days, better than season 1's Tasmanian average of 21.6 but still a location where food access, not raw cold, decided most exits. Tamika Simpson lasted 53 days before tapping out because she was unwilling to kill animals for food in a landscape that offered little else. Rick J. Petersen, a former SAS soldier and survival educator, still only reached day 38. The pattern across the season is a location that rewards patience and foraging skill over aggressive hunting, since dense wet forest makes tracking large game difficult.

Contestant	Placement	Days lasted	Notable factor
Krzysztof Wojtkowski	1st (winner)	64	Survived without eating meat all season
Suzan Muir	2nd	63	Heart issues revealed at the reunion
Andreas Lundin	3rd	57	Lost 30% of starting body weight
Tamika Simpson	4th	53	Would not kill animals for food
Rick J. Petersen	5th	38	Missed family

How the field fared

Krzysztof Wojtkowski, an aquaculturalist who raises barramundi, won season 2 by outlasting all nine other contestants without eating any meat, relying instead on strong crafting skills and mental resilience in a landscape that rarely handed him an easy meal. He did not choose to tap out. A scheduled medical check on day 64 determined he could no longer safely continue, and that's when producers told him he had won. Suzan Muir pushed to day 63 as runner-up, only revealing at the reunion that she had been managing heart issues for much of her run. Third-place Andreas Lundin lasted 57 days despite losing 30% of his body weight, a number that shows how thin the margins get in a location where forage is unpredictable.

Fiordland's result sits in the middle of the franchise pack rather than at either extreme, harder than Vancouver Island's original season but easier than Tasmania's brutal debut. For the rest of the Alone Australia cast and how they compare, see the season 2 page and the locations hub for every filming site the franchise has used, plus the full location-by-location ranking for how these sites stack up by field survival time.