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unusual facts about Auckland Island


Auckland Island

The 1955 film The Sea Chase has a German merchant ship fleeing from British and Australian naval ships at the beginning of World War II.



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Antipodes Subantarctic Islands tundra

The islands are home to a number of rare plants including a unique genus the Auckland Island Pleurophyllum, and the only subantarctic orchids, Nematoceras dienemum and Nematoceras sulcatum of Macquarie Island.

Enderby Island

The island is part of the Auckland Island group Important Bird Area (IBA), identified as such by BirdLife International because of the significance of the group as a breeding site for several species of seabirds as well as the endemic Auckland Shag, Auckland Teal, Auckland Rail and Auckland Snipe.