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unusual facts about Campbell Islands



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.

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.


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Centrolepis ciliata

It is found in New Zealand (the North, South, Stewart, Auckland and Campbell Islands) and Tasmania.

Jacquemart Island

Until the Campbell Islands were cleared of introduced rats in 2001, Jacquemart was also the last refuge of the Campbell Snipe, a subspecies of Subantarctic Snipe first discovered in 1997 and described in 2009.