Campbell Islands
Campbell Islands | ||
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Map of Campbell Island with its surrounding islands | ||
Waters | Pacific Ocean | |
Geographical location | 52 ° 32 ' S , 169 ° 11' E | |
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Number of islands | 11 | |
Main island | Campbell Island | |
Total land area | 113.3 km² | |
Residents | uninhabited | |
Image from the International Space Station (ISS) from space |
As Campbell Islands or Campbell Islands are Campbell Iceland and the surrounding small islands in the southern Pacific Ocean called. The name is not official, however. In the English-language specialist literature, the islands are sometimes also called the Campbell Island Group by scientists . The islands are part of the territory of New Zealand .
Around Campbell Island are:
- Dent Island
- Folly Island
- Gomez Island
- Hook keys
- Isle de Jeanette Marie
- Jacquemart Island
- Monowai Island
- Survey Island
- Wasp Island
They were all created by erosion and were once part of the former volcano that formed Campbell Island in the late Cenozoic .
Dent Island is the largest of all islands surrounding Campbell Island with a length of around 625 m and an area of 23 hectares .
literature
- Patrick Marshall : New Zealand and adjacent islands . VII Section 1. Carl Winter's University Bookstore , Heidelberg 1912, B. Outlying Islands of New Zealand (English, online [PDF; 6,7 MB ; accessed on June 8, 2018]).
Individual evidence
- ↑ David Baker, Jeremy WA Carrol, Hannah K. Edmonds, James R. Fraser, Colin M. Miskelly : Discovery of a previously unknown Coenocorypha snipe in the Campbell Island group, New Zealand subantarctic . In: The Ornithological Society of New Zealand (ed.): Notornis . Vol. 52 , 2005, pp. 143–149 (English, online [PDF; 4.0 MB ; accessed on June 8, 2018]).
- ^ Marshall : New Zealand and adjacent islands . 1912, p. 62-64 .
- ^ Campbell Island . (JPG 4.0 MB) Land Information New Zealand , accessed on June 7, 2018 (English, detailed topographic map of Campbell Island with its small neighboring islands and rocky islands).