Forty fours
| Forty fours | ||
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 The rock on the left is New Zealand's most easterly point |
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| Waters | South pacific | |
| archipelago | Chatham Islands | |
| Geographical location | 43 ° 58 ′ S , 175 ° 50 ′ W | |
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| Number of islands | 5 | |
| Main island | Bertier Islet (Forty Fours Islet / Motuhara Islet) |
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| Total land area | 0.01 km² | |
| Residents | uninhabited | |
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The Forty-Fours (Moriori: Motuhara , dt "Vierundvierziger.") Are a group of small rocky islands in the archipelago of to New Zealand belonging Chatham Islands in the southwestern Pacific Ocean .
geography
The Forty-Fours are 50 km east of Chatham Island and around 800 km east of New Zealand's main islands. They are the easternmost islets of the Chatham Islands and thus represent the easternmost land mass of New Zealand. They got their name because of their location not far from the 44th parallel south.
The archipelago consists of the main island of Bertier Islet (also Forty-Fours Islet or Motuhara Islet), a 46-meter-high island with four rocks in front of it in the east. The area is less than one hectare . Bertier Islet rises almost vertically from the sea, with cliffs sometimes over 40 meters high, but is flat in height . The smaller rocks also protrude very steeply from the sea.
fauna
The remote islands are an important breeding area for seabirds , especially for the Northern King Albatross ( Diomedea sanfordi ), whose world's largest populations are here and on the archipelago “ The Sisters ” or the Hall petrel ( Macronectes halli ), which lives here with 2,000 pairs is represented.
Web links
- The Chatham Islands on oceandots.com ( Memento from December 23, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- About the albatrosses on the Forty-Fours (PDF; English; 209 kB)