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unusual facts about Auckland Islands



Cadulus teliger

It can be found from the Three Kings Islands to the Chatham Islands, at depths of between 15 and 360 m, and lives off the Auckland Islands at depths of approximately 170 m.

Chiltonia

enderbyensis was named by Hurley in 1954 for the populations of Chiltonia living on New Zealand's Sub-Antarctic Islands, namely Enderby Island (one of the Auckland Islands) and Campbell Island.

Climbing galaxias

Their distribution extends to coastal streams in southeastern Australia from Adelaide and Kangaroo Island in South Australia, through coastal Victoria including Wilsons Promontory, Tasmania, Flinders and King Islands and up the New South Wales coast to around Sydney, as well as New Zealand including the Chatham, Auckland and Campbell Islands.

Jasus edwardsii

Jasus edwardsii is found around most of the coast of New Zealand, including the three main islands, the Three Kings Islands, the Chatham Islands, the Snares Islands, the Bounty Islands, the Antipodes Islands and the Auckland Islands.

Marinula striata

This species is known to occur under stones at the shore line on a number of New Zealand's islands: Antipodes Islands, Auckland Islands, Campbell Island, and Stewart Island.

Poa foliosa

In New Zealand the grass is found on the north-eastern Titi, or Muttonbird, Islands, as well as on the Solander, Snares, Antipodes, Auckland and Campbell Islands.


see also

1907 Sub-Antarctic Islands Scientific Expedition

Dr Clinton Coleridge Farr, Lecturer in Physics and Surveying, Canterbury College, Christchurch - Auckland Islands