The island has an approximate land area of 510 km2, and is 42 kilometres long. It is notable for its steep cliffs and rugged terrain, which rises to over 600 metres. Prominent peaks include Cavern Peak (650 M), Mount Raynal (635 m), Mount D'Urville (630 m), Mount Easton (610 m), and the Tower of Babel (550 m).
The southern end of the island broadens to a width of 26 kilometres. Here, a narrow channel known as Carnley Harbour (on some maps the Adams Straits) separates the main island from the smaller Adams Island. The channel is the remains of the crater of an extinct volcano, and Adams Island and the southern part of the main island form the crater rim.
The AucklandIslands are one of the bleakest places on Earth, situated in the sub-Antarctic region, 465km south of New Zealand.
The islands are tiny, with AucklandIsland itself, the largest island of the group, being only 43 kilometres long by 24 wide - but are nevertheless the home to an amazing variety of unusual and rare wildlife, a number of ancient shipwrecks and some of the most ferocious weather on the planet.
AucklandIslands have a distinct altitudinal zonation in the vegetation:
AUCKLAND, a city and seaport on the east coast of North Island, New Zealand, in Eden county; capital of the province of its name, and the seat of a bishop.
Auckland has industries of sugar-refining, ship-building and paper-, ropeand brick-making, and timber is worked.
From 1853 to 1876 Auckland was the seat of the provincial government, and until 1865 that of the central government, which was then transferred to Wellington.
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