Sub-Antarctic Islands

The New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands consists of the five southernmost groups of the New Zealand Outlying Islands.
Most of the islands are located near the southernmost edge of the largely submerged continent centred on New Zealand called Zealandia. It sank after rifting away from Australia 60-85 million years ago and from Antarctica between 130 and 85 million years ago. It is 3,500,000 km2 in area, almost half the size of Australia and is unusually long and narrow.
The islands are:
- Antipodes Islands
- Auckland Islands
- Bounty Islands
- Campbell Island group
- The Snares


Map of Sub-Antarctic Islands
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- Full Name
- New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands
- Unesco ID
- 877
- Country
- New Zealand
- Inscribed
- 1998
- Type
- Natural
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- Natural landscape - Insular
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1998 Inscribed
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Peat: Auckland Islands "This paper contains a description of the peat soils on part of the Auckland Islands which lie in the South Pacific Ocean approximately 200 miles south of New Zealand. Peat forms a blanket over the surface of the Islands and is the parent material of most of the soils
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Miocene: The Auckland, Campbell and Antipodes islands are primarily of recent volcanic origin. The first two are eroded volcanic domes created 10-15 million years ago. The western sides of all three groups have been eroded significantly, creating steep cliffs, while on the eastern sides lava flows and glaciers from the Pleistocene era (about 2 million years ago) have formed U-shaped valleys, fiords and harbours. The Antipodes volcano is the youngest and least eroded.
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One thousand visitors or fewer: “annual visitation to this site has fluctuated from approximately 250 to 750 visitors since the mid-2000s.”
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