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Campbell Island is a remote, sub-antarctic island of New Zealand and the main island of the Campbell Island group. Campbell Island is located at 52°32.4′S 169°8.7′E. Campbell Island covers 115 km2 and is surrounded by numerous stacks, rocks and islets like Dent Island, Folly Island (or Folly Islands) and Jacquemart Island, the latter being the southernmost extremity of New Zealand. Campbell Island is barren and rocky, rising to over 500 metres in the south. A long fiord, Perseverance Harbour, nearly bisects the island, exiting to the sea on the east coast. A remote may mean: a remote control a remote broadcast as an adjective, anything which is distant or desolate. ...
The Campbell Island group (or Campbell Islands) is a group of sub-antarctic islands, belonging to New Zealand. ...
A stack is a geological landform consisting of a steep and often vertical column or columns of rock in the sea near a coast. ...
Our earth is composed of three main types of rock, each having been formed in its own special way. ...
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Dent Island is a sub-antarctic 26ha rock stack, lying 3km west off Campbell Islands coast and belonging to the Campbell Island group. ...
Jacquemart Island is the name of one of the islets surrounding Campbell Island. ...
Lysefjorden in Norway A fjord (pronounced FEE-ord or fyord, SAMPA: [fi:3:d] or [faI3:d]; sometimes written fiord) is a glacially overdeepened valley, usually narrow and steep-sided, extending below sea level and filled with salt water. ...
Campbell Island was discovered in 1810 by Captain Frederick Hasselburgh and his sealing brig Perseverance, which was owned by the Sidney-based company Campbell & Co. (therefore the island's name). It became a seal hunting base, and the island's seal population was almost totally eradicated. 1810 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
Seal hunting or Sealing is the hunting and killing of Seals, usually for the purpose of selling their skins. ...
In sailing, a brig is a vessel with two masts at least one of which is square rigged. ...
Families Odobenidae Otariidae Phocidae Pinnipeds (fin-foots, lit. ...
Until 1995 a meteorological station near the north shore of Perseverance Harbour was manned permanently. Today, human presence is limited to periodical visits of research and conservation expeditions. 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Compass rose with north highlighted and at top North is one of the four cardinal directions, specifically the direction that, in Western culture, is treated as the primary direction: north is used (explicitly or implicitly) to define all other directions; the (visual) top edges of maps usually correspond to the...
In 2003 the island was declared rat free. [1] This was carried out to allow the bird life to recover without predation by the rats. 2003 (MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Species 50 species; see text *Several subfamilies of Muroids include animals called rats. ...
See also
Binomial name Anas nesiotis (Fleming, 1935) Synonyms The Campbell Island Teal (Anas nesiotis) is a species of dabbling duck of the genus Anas that is endemic to Campbell Island group off New Zealand. ...
The Campbell Island group (or Campbell Islands) is a group of sub-antarctic islands, belonging to New Zealand. ...
Five groups of islands form the New Zealand sub-antarctic islands. ...
The sub-antarctic islands are the islands in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica out of Antarctic Circle (66° 33 38). Antarctic islands are the islands in the Southern Ocean or in the seas around Antarctica inside of Antarctic Circle. ...
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