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Location map, for Auckland Islands showing position from New Zealand. The Auckland Islands (Māori: Motu Maha "Many islands" or Maungahuka "Snowy mountains") [2] are an archipelago of New Zealand, lying 465 km (289 mi) south of the South Island.
Map of Auckland Island. The island has a land area of about 442.5 km 2 (170.9 sq mi), [1] and is 42 kilometres (26 mi) long. It was formed 25 to 10 million years ago from a huge volcanic pile which formed two domes – one centred around Carnley Harbour in the south and another (the Ross Dome) around Disappointment Island to the west.
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Map of the Auckland Islands, showing Adams Island to the south of the main island. The southern end of Auckland Island broadens to a width of 26 km (16 mi) where a narrow channel, known as Carnley Harbour or the Adams Straits, separates it from the roughly triangular Adams Island (area approximately 100 km 2 or 39 sq mi), which is even more mountainous, reaching a height of 705 m (2,313 ft) at ...
The island's northernmost point, also the northernmost point in the Auckland Islands, is Derry Castle Reef, named after the ship Derry Castle, which foundered there in 1887. Enderby Island is perched on the Campbell Plateau and is composed of eroding volcanic remains from eruptions that occurred between 25 and 10 million years ago.
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 ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; GPX (all coordinates) ... Goat Island (Auckland) Great Barrier Island; H. Herald Island, New ...