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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 mountainous, 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. Look up Remote in Wiktionary, the free dictionary A remote may mean: A remote control A remote broadcast As an adjective, anything which is distant or desolate. ...
The sub-antarctic is a region in the Southern Hemisphere immediately north of Antarctica and covering much of Argentina and the many islands of the Great Southern Ocean. ...
The Campbell Island group (or Campbell Islands) is a group of sub-antarctic islands, belonging to New Zealand. ...
Stack, near Old Harry Rocks A stack is a geological landform consisting of a steep and often vertical column or columns of rock in the sea near a coast. ...
Sedimentary, volcanic, plutonic, metamorphic rock types of North America. ...
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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 Sydney-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 refers to the practice, history and industries associated with both personal and commercial hunting and killing of seals. ...
In sailing, a brig is a vessel with two masts at least one of which is square rigged. ...
Families Odobenidae Otariidae Phocidae A pacific walrus A leopard seal on Kerguelen Pinnipeds (fin-feet, 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) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Species 50 species; see text *Several subfamilies of Muroids include animals called rats. ...
Gallery Vagrant adolescent male Elephant seal Mirounga leonina resting up in the tussock grasses Species M. leonina M. angustirostris There are two species of elephant seal. ...
| New Zealand Sea Lions disporting themselves among the tussock grass Binomial name Phocarctos hookeri (Gray, 1844) The New Zealand Sea Lion (Phocarctos hookeri) or Hookers Sea Lion is a species of sea lion that breeds around the coast of the South Island of New Zealand and Stewart Island/Rakiura, to some extent, and to a greater extent around much...
| Campbell Island landscape | Southern Royal Albatross, Diomedea epomophora with chick on mound nest on Campbell Island Binomial name Diomedea epomophora Lesson, 1785 Synonyms Diomedea epomophora epomophora The Southern Royal Albatross, Diomedea epomophora, is a large seabird from the albatross family. ...
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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. ...
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