Beyond the Roaring Forties: New Zealand's Subantarctic Islands"New Zealand's lonely subantarctic islands - the Antipodes, Bounty, Snares, Campbell and Auckland Islands - lie south of New Zealand on the way to Antarctica. ... Today all five island groups are managed as nature reserves, and acknowledged to be of worldwide ecological importance, with their rare species of birds, marine mammals, insects and plants, and some of the last remaining unmodified environments on Eath."--Jacket. |
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Adams Island animals Antarctic Antarctica Antipodes Island ashore Australia Bollons Bounty Islands breeding Campbell Island Cape Expeditioners Captain Carnley Harbour castaway depot Chatham cliffs coast coastwatching colonies crew Disappointment Island east elephant seals Enderby Island Enderby Settlement Erebus Cove Falla fisheries flora fur seals goats Hinemoa HMNZS Hooker's sea lion kilometres Mackworth Macquarie Island main Auckland Island main island marine metres mollymawks Museum Musgrave nests North Northwest Bay Olearia forest peat penguin skins Peninsula Perseverance Harbour petrels Photo plants Plateau Pleurophyllum Port Ross prions pups rata forest rock round royal albatross sailed Sandy Bay scientific scientists scrub sea birds sealers season shearwaters sheep ship shipwreck shore Sir James Clark Snares sooty sooty shearwaters South Southern Ocean species station Stewart Island Stilbocarpa polaris subantarctic islands survivors Sydney tussock grass vegetation volcanic voyage weather Wellington wind wreck Zealand Zealand's subantarctic islands