New Zealand outlying islands
The New Zealand outlying islands comprise nine island groups, located in the subtropics and Subantarctic, which are part of New Zealand but lie outside of the New Zealand continental shelf. Although considered as integral parts of New Zealand, seven of the nine island groups are not part of any region or district, but are instead designated as Area Outside Territorial Authority. The two exceptions are the Chatham Islands, which form a special territorial authority (island council) themselves, and the Solander Islands, which are part of the Southland Region and Southland District.
The term is also used sometimes to further encompass the Balleny Islands, a group of subantarctic islands technically considered part of Ross Dependency and covered by the Antarctic Treaty.
The five island groups of the New Zealand Subantarctic Islands, including their territorial seas, are a World Heritage Site.
Island groups [ edit ]
The island groups from north to south:
Population [ edit ]
The islands are all uninhabited except the Chatham Islands.
There is a staffed meteorological station on Raoul Island of the Kermadec Islands. The meteorological station on Campbell Island has been unstaffed and automated since 1995. There was a meteorological station on the Auckland Islands from 1942 to 1945. The Three Kings Islands and the Auckland Islands were formerly inhabited. There have been failed settlement attempts on Raoul Island, the Antipodes Islands and the Auckland Islands. The Solander Islands have never been inhabited except by shipwrecked sailors or marooned stowaways (for the longest period, from 1808 to 1813 by five European stowaways).
See also [ edit ]
- British Overseas Territories
- List of Antarctic and Subantarctic islands
- List of islands of New Zealand
- New Zealand Subantarctic Islands
References [ edit ]
- ^ "Data Table - Protected Areas - LINZ Data Service (recorded area 3359.9864 ha)". Land Information New Zealand. Retrieved 2019-08-27.
- ^ "Data Table - Protected Areas - LINZ Data Service (recorded area 684.7281 ha)". Land Information New Zealand. Retrieved 2019-08-27.
- ^ "Data Table - Protected Areas - LINZ Data Service (recorded area 120 ha)". Land Information New Zealand. Retrieved 2019-08-27.
- ^ "Data Table - Protected Areas - LINZ Data Service (recorded area 135 ha)". Land Information New Zealand. Retrieved 2019-08-27.
- ^ "Data Table - Protected Areas - LINZ Data Service (recorded area 350 ha)". Land Information New Zealand. Retrieved 2019-08-27.
- ^ "Data Table - Protected Areas - LINZ Data Service (recorded area 2100 ha)". Land Information New Zealand. Retrieved 2019-08-27.
- ^ "Data Table - Protected Areas - LINZ Data Service (recorded area 62564 ha)". Land Information New Zealand. Retrieved 2019-08-27.
- ^ "Data Table - Protected Areas - LINZ Data Service (recorded area 11331 ha)". Land Information New Zealand. Retrieved 2019-08-27.
External links [ edit ]
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New Zealand
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Cook Islands
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| Regions | 11 non-unitary regions | 5 unitary regions | Chatham Islands |
Kermadec Islands
NZ Subantarctic Islands Three Kings Islands |
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Ross Dependency | 15 islands | 14 villages | |||
| Territorial authorities | 11 cities and 50 districts | 2 cities and 3 districts | |||||||||
| Notes | Seven districts lie in more than one region | These combine the regional and the territorial authority levels in one | Special territorial authority | New Zealand outlying islands outside any regional authority (the outlying Solander Islands form a part of the Southland Region) | Dependent territory of New Zealand | New Zealand's Antarctic dependency | States in free association with New Zealand | ||||