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Campbell Islands
Part of New Zealand Subantarctic Islands
The Campbell Islands (Motu Ihupuku or Campbell Island Group) are a group of subantarctic islands, belonging to New Zealand. They lie about 600 km south of Stewart Island.
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Overview
The Campbell Islands (Motu Ihupuku or Campbell Island Group) are a group of subantarctic islands, belonging to New Zealand. They lie about 600 km south of Stewart Island. The islands have a total area of 113 km2 (44 sq mi), consisting of one big island, Campbell Island, and several small islets, notably Dent Island, Isle de Jeanette Marie, Folly Island (or Folly Islands), Jacquemart Island, and Monowai Island (also known as Lion Rock). Ecologically, they are part of the Antipodes Subantarctic Islands tundra ecoregion. The islands were gazetted as a nature reserve in 1954, and are one of five subantarctic island groups collectively designated as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
Census, cataloged
- Major islands1
- Minor islands2
- Islets22
- Rocks & skerries65
Major islands
Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku
- Area
- 109 km²
- High point
- 569 m
Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku is an uninhabited subantarctic island of New Zealand, and the main island of the Campbell Island group. The island lies around 660 km (410 mi) south of New Zealand's South Island.
Minor islands
Jacquemart Island
- Area
- 0.23 km²
- High point
- 127 m
Dent Island
- Area
- 0.2 km²
- High point
- 135 m
Islets
- Folly Island49 m · 0.07 km²
- Monowai Island25 m · 0.07 km²
- Survey Island0.03 km²
- Unnamed island5 m · 0.02 km²
- Unnamed island0.01 km²
- Unnamed island0.9 ha
- La Botte0.8 ha
- Unnamed island0.6 ha
- Unnamed island0.5 ha
- Unnamed island0.5 ha
- Unnamed island0.4 ha
- Unnamed island0.3 ha
Rocks & skerries
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- Unnamed island<0.1 ha
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- Unnamed island<0.1 ha
Also in the area
Inside the group's outline but not confirmed as members by any source.
- Isle de Jeanette Marie44 m · 0.08 km²
- Unnamed island10 m · 0.05 km²
- Wasp Island0.05 km²
- Unnamed island12 m · 0.03 km²
- Gomez Island1 m · 0.02 km²
- Unnamed island0.01 km²
- Unnamed island0.8 ha
- Unnamed island0.7 ha
- Unnamed island1 m · 0.6 ha
- Unnamed island1 m · 0.4 ha
- Unnamed island0.4 ha
- Unnamed island0.3 ha
Figures
Comparative heights
- Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku: 569 m
- Dent: 135 m
- Jacquemart: 127 m
- Folly: 49 m
- Isle de Jeanette Marie: 44 m
- Monowai: 25 m
- Gomez: 1 m
To the same scale
Islands by area
| Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku | 109 km² |
| Jacquemart Island | 0.23 km² |
| Dent Island | 0.2 km² |
| Isle de Jeanette Marie | 0.08 km² |
| Folly Island | 0.07 km² |
| Monowai Island | 0.07 km² |
| Unnamed island | 0.05 km² |
| Wasp Island | 0.05 km² |
| Survey Island | 0.03 km² |
| Unnamed island | 0.03 km² |
| Gomez Island | 0.02 km² |
| Unnamed island | 0.02 km² |
| Unnamed island | 0.01 km² |
| Unnamed island | 0.01 km² |
| Cossack Rock | 0.9 ha |
| Unnamed island | 0.9 ha |
| Unnamed island | 0.8 ha |
| La Botte | 0.8 ha |
| Unnamed island | 0.7 ha |
| Unnamed island | 0.6 ha |
| Unnamed island | 0.6 ha |
| Unnamed island | 0.5 ha |
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Groups within
Photographs
![Campbell Islands Expedition, 13 Feb-3 Mar 1981, TK Crosby, GW Ramsay [Campbell I 1_02]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Campbell_I_1_02.jpg/500px-Campbell_I_1_02.jpg)
Campbell Islands Expedition, 13 Feb-3 Mar 1981, TK Crosby, GW Ramsay [Campbell I 1_02]
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research / CC BY 4.0
Campbell Island, New Zealand, one of the sub-antarctic islands of New Zealand, with a community of megaherbs in the foreground
![Campbell Islands Expedition, 13 Feb-3 Mar 1981, TK Crosby, GW Ramsay [Campbell I 1_03]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Campbell_I_1_03.jpg/500px-Campbell_I_1_03.jpg)
Campbell Islands Expedition, 13 Feb-3 Mar 1981, TK Crosby, GW Ramsay [Campbell I 1_03]
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research / CC BY 4.0
Dent Island in the distance - from Campbell Island, New Zealand.
climate chart in the format by Walther and Lieth, metric, °Celsisus and millimeters, made with Geoklima 2.1
Scanned photo of Campbell Island landscape.
New Zealand botanist and Emeritus Professor Geoff Baylis with Chionochloa antarctica on Campbell Island, November 2000
Dracophyllum forms a medium size bush. Sheltered parts of Campbell Island, from sea level to a few hundred metres are covered with a dense scrub of Dracophyllum.
The buttercup species Ranunculus pinguis, photographed by Colin Meurk, on 23 December 1998, at Mt. Honey, Campbell Island, New Zealand
jpg of Plate 38 in Volume 16 of Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute; in illustration of Article 43
Sources
Facts
Photographs
- Dent Island. twiddleblat / CC BY-SA 2.0
- Campbell Island (15806194388). Archives New Zealand from New Zealand / CC BY-SA 2.0
- Campbell I 1 02. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research / CC BY 4.0
- Campbell Island and megaherbs. twiddleblat / CC BY-SA 2.0
- Campbell I 1 03. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research / CC BY 4.0
- Dent1. L. Mead & T. Nicklin / Public domain
- Klimadiagramm-metrisch-deutsch-Campbell-Insel.Neuseeland. Hedwig in Washington / CC BY 2.5
- Campbell Island Landscape. Albatross2147 at English Wikipedia / Public domain
- Geoff Baylis with Chionochloa antarctica on Campbell Island Nov 2000. Alan Mark / CC BY-SA 4.0
- Dracophyllum in Flower (463889035). twiddleblat / CC BY-SA 2.0
- Ranunculus pinguis Meurk 1. Colin Meurk / CC BY-SA 4.0
- Trans NZ Inst Vol 16 Plate 38. New Zealand Institute / Public domain