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	Antipodes Island parakeet, Cyanoramphus unicolor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The largest of the genus, the Antipodes Island parakeet was described as far back as 1831 from a specimen that had been taken to England alive and placed in the Zoological Society’s gardens.
		The Antipodes Island - a mere rock in the ocean, 640 miles from Port Chalmers, New Zealand, in a southerly direction - is the only known spot on the face of the globe inhabited by this parakeet.
		It is common on the main island (20 km) and Bollons Island (0.5 km), and occurs in small numbers on Leeward (0.1 km), Inner Windward (0.1 km) and Archway (0.1 km) islets.
	nzbirds.com /birds/antipodesparakeet.html (493 words)

	Antipodes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The antipodes of any place on the Earth is the place which is diametrically opposite it — so situated that a line drawn from the one to the other passes through the centre of the Earth and forms a true diameter.
		The antipodes of any place on Earth must be distant from it by 180° of longitude, and must be as many degrees to the north of the equator as the original is to the south; in other words, the latitudes are numerically equal, but one is north and the other south.
		This is not geographically precise: the antipodes of New Zealand lie in Spain, Portugal and the north Atlantic Ocean.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Antipodes (1325 words)

	Eudyptes.Net - The Snares Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Snares Islands (or just 'Snares') are one of five subantarctic island groups that became UNESCO World Heritage in 1998, because of their unique flora and fauna.
		All these island groups, namely the Auckland Islands, Campbell Islands, Antipodes Islands and the Bounty Islands, lie south-east and south of the New Zealand mainland, between the latitudes 47° and 52° South in the zones that are famous as the "Roaring Forties" and "Furious Fifties".
		Broughton Island, Alert Stack, the Daption Islands in the north), and a group of islands that are known as the Western Chain.
	www.eudyptes.net /english/snares.html (1016 words)

	Natural History Magazine \| Feature
		The Antipodes Islands are in the middle of nowhere.
		Erect-crested penguins breed on the Antipodes and on a similarly isolated group of islands nearly 200 miles to the north, the Bounty Islands.
		Antipodes Island is less than five miles in length and somewhat more than a mile across at its widest point.
	www.naturalhistorymag.com /1101/1101_feature.html (4419 words)

	Tilting toward the Antipodes, by Natori Moore - from Soul Food Astrology
		The Antipodes are a small group of islands roughly 820 kilometers or 550 miles southeast of New Zealand, named as such since they contain the geographic coordinates precisely opposite on the globe from Greenwich, England.
		The word Antipodes, in fact, literally means "opposite foot." Though the term is defined in relation to the point at Greenwich, awareness of two poles -- rather than one -- is a start at global understanding.
		Yet we don't have to go to the Antipodes Islands, reachable only by boat even today, to understand the Sagittarian concept of awareness of far away places, and to attempt to view the world from the perspective of these places.
	www.soulfoodastrology.com /articles/antipodes.html (948 words)

	UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre - New Zealand Subantarctic Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The islands are distributed off the south and eastern coasts of New Zealand, the Antipodes Islands lying at a distance of 820km from South Island.
		The Snares, Antipodes and two of the Auckland Islands (Adams and Disappointment) are remarkable in that their vegetation is essentially unmodified by humans or alien animals.
		The five island groups of the NZSAI very markedly in size, geology, landforms and climate but their main distinction is that they are the most significant site for seabirds in all of Insulantarctica.
	www.unep-wcmc.org /sites/wh/subantar.htm (2414 words)

	Totorore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Martin Renner, German born researcher at the University of Otago sits patiently in the old Castaway Hut at Hutt Cove, Antipodes Islands by the single side band radio waiting for his skipper and fellow birdwatcher, Gerry Clark to call in on their regular radio schedule from the 10m yacht "Totorore".
		The Ranui arrives at the Antipodes at first light on Wednesday morning to discover the island with the remains of 2 inches of snow which had been covering the island for the last 2-3 days.
		The crew leave the island filled with emotion at the apparent loss of friends and fellow mariners.The bond which all seafarers have with each other is a strong one.They are also in trepidation of what the Southern Ocean may dish out on the trip home.
	www.ranui.co.nz /totorore.html (2501 words)

	Antipodes Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Antipodes Islands (49.67° S 178.77° E or 49°41′S 178°48′E) are inhospitable islands to the south of—and territorially part of—New Zealand.
		The group consists of one main island of 60 km² area, Bollans Island of 2 km² to the north, and numerous small islets and stacks.
		Although they are the closest land to the true antipodes of Britain, their location is directly antipodal to a point in the sea a few kilometres to the east of Cherbourg on the north coast of France.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Antipodes_Islands (387 words)

	RSNZ: Auckland Islands bicentennial
		Current management issues are: biosecurity of the islands including pest eradication, control and pest invasion; management of the adjoining marine reserve; protection of historic relics on the islands; minimising impacts of visitation (including research activities); growth of the tourism industry; and provision of emergency fuel depots.
		Recollections of an archaeologist on the Auckland Islands.
		Auckland Islands' human history, from the date of discovery, is cast in the dramatic form of a tragedy of the most unremitting failure of men in a struggle against natural forces.
	www.rsnz.org /events/akl-isl/profiles.php (4987 words)

	New Zealand Geography
		The North Island is 113,729km square and is considered as the fourteenth largest island in the world.
		The North Island is not as mountainous as the South Island.
		The island has an area of 151,215 km square and is known as the twelfth world largest island.
	www.new-zealand-nz.net /geography.html (815 words)

	Biodiversity Hotspots - New Zealand - Overview
		The Kermadec Islands have a subtropical climate, with warm, moist conditions throughout the year, while the Chatham Islands have a cloudy, humid climate, with cool, wet winters and warm, usually dry summers.
		Other forests on North Island are dominated by angiosperms, while those in the southern portion of the island and on South Island are dominated by Gondwanan gymnosperms of the family Podocarpaceae and southern beeches (Nothofagus spp.).
		The Wheki-Ponga tree fern (Cyathea smithii) is endemic to New Zealand and occurs on North, South, Stewart and Chatham islands.
	www.conservation.org /xp/Hotspots/new_zealand (461 words)

	List of islands
		Note: Australia is generally considered to be a continental landmass, rather than an island.
		If however one does count Australia among the islands it, not Greenland, would be the largest in the world (unless one also considered Antarctica an island).
		Denmark has 405 named islands, of which 82 are inhabited.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/is/Islands_of_the_world.html (311 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Antipodes Subantarctic Islands tundra (AA1101)
		Macquarie Island is geologically distinct and lies on the Indo-Australian and Pacific Plate boundary.
		Vegetation on the Bounty Islands is restricted to lichens and algae.
		The Macquarie Island population of southern elephant seals is intensively studied by the Antarctic Wildlife Research Unit at the University of Tasmania, and is known to be declining at about 2 percent per annum.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/aa/aa1101_full.html (2704 words)

	Antipodes Island — 70South - Antarctic News, Antarctic Information, Interactive and Updated Daily... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This group of islands consists of the two Windward Islands, the Leeward Island and the Bools Island, and are 62 sq km in size.
		Landings are not allowed in the Antipodes, but even if they were allowed, there would be little room for people, because of all the bird nests on the islands.
		The Bounty and Antipodes Islands are the only place in the world with the erect-crested penguin (200,000 pairs).
	www.70south.com /resources/antarctic-islands/antipodes (196 words)

	French Polynesia
		First discovered by Europeans during the Age of Enlightenment, Tahiti was embraced by French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau, who claimed that the island was proof that his "noble savage," uncorrupted by civilization, existed.
		Today travelers still make the pilgrimage to the islands to seek out a perfect existence, vanquishing their worries with white-sand beaches, crystal-blue waters and lush tropic rain forests.
		Tahiti and her sister islands in French Polynesia - Bora Bora, Moorea, Huahine and over 100 more - are exquisite landfalls where French and island culture have merged to create a sophisticated yet casual lifestyle.
	www.antipodestours.com /FrenchPoly/frenchpoly.htm (296 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Antipodes Subantarctic Islands tundra (AA1101) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Salvin’s mollymawks are birds that nest along the rocky shores of Bounty Island, constructing their distinctive, cylindrical nests out of mud and pigeon feathers because there is no vegetation on this island.
		Confined to the islands, the isolated populations of birds have gradually evolved into endemic subspecies.
		The Auckland Islands harbor endemic subspecies of rail, tomtit, pipit, and snipe.
	nationalgeographic.com /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/aa/aa1101.html (429 words)

	Hotspots Revisited
		The Kermadec Islands have a subtropical climate, with warm, moist conditions throughout the year, while the Chatham Islands have a cloudy, humid climate, with cool, wet winters and warm, often dry summers.
		In the southern part of North Island and on South Island, extensive areas of forest are dominated by Gondwanan gymnosperms of the family Podocarpaceae, by southern beech (Nothofagus), and by various combinations of these with broad-leaved angiosperms.
		As is the case with many oceanic islands, humans arrived fairly late on New Zealand, with the Maoris first arriving perhaps 700-800 years ago (Ministry for the Environment 1997) and the Europeans in the early part of the nineteenth century.
	www.biodiversityscience.org /publications/hotspots/NewZealandfinal.html (2315 words)

	Peakbagger.com-The Other Side of the World
		The map does not show small islands well, and several tiny, remote, windblown French posessions in the southern Indian Ocean are not visible.
		These uninhabited islands are the only land antipodal to land in the contiguous 48 United States: A slice of far northern Montana is directly opposite the Kerguelen Islands, while St. Paul and Amsterdam Islands are opposite southeastern Colorado.
		Outside the "Lower 48", far northern Alaksa is opposite coastal East Antarctica, and Hawaii is antipodal to the Kalahari Desert in northern Botswana.
	www.peakbagger.com /pbgeog/worldrev.aspx (366 words)

	Declining rockhopper penguin populations in New Zealand - NIWA Science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		C (‰) for rockhopper penguins from Antipodes Island, data grouped into 20-year means ± 1 standard error.
		In the New Zealand region, rockhopper penguins breed at the Auckland Islands, Antipodes Islands and at Campbell Island.
		Cunningham, D.M.; Moors, P.J. The decline of rockhopper penguins Eudyptes chrysocome at Campbell Island, Southern Ocean, and the influence of rising sea temperatures.
	www.niwascience.co.nz /pubs/wa/10-3/rockhopper (1274 words)

	SUB-ANTARCTIC ISLANDS - The Antipodes Islands - 1966 Encyclopaedia of New Zealand
		These consist of a main island some 5 miles long by 3 miles wide, with offshore islets and rock stacks making an area estimated to be 24 sq.
		They lie in latitude 49° 41' S and longitude 178° 43' E. The main island is a rough plateau bounded by remarkably even lines of steep cliffs, especially in the north-west.
		The islands, once famous for their fur seals, were discovered in 1800 by Captain Waterhouse of HMS Reliance.
	www.teara.govt.nz /1966/S/Sub-antarcticIslands/TheAntipodesIslands/en (346 words)

	Histoire Antar/FR/Introduction
		We may know the exact number of sub-Antarctic islands, but we cannot be sure of how many islands are attached to the continent by an ice-shelf.
		Periodically, however, one or other of them makes the news; this was the case in January 1995, when an immense platform of floating ice broke away from the north-east of the Antarctic peninsula between the coast and Ross Island at Prince Gustav Straits.
		This was because, in the space of a few short weeks, a whole part of the very contours of the continent has been altered.
	www.antarctica.org /UK/Envirn/pag/iles_UK.htm (187 words)

	Ocean Adventures \| THE SUBANTARCTIC ISLANDS OF NEW ZEALAND & AUSTRALIA
		The Chatham Islands, the Bounty Islands, Antipodes Island, Campbell Island, the Auckland Islands and Snares Island are sovereign territories of New Zealand, while Macquarie Island is a territory of Australia.
		All the islands have been designated as nature reserves – the highest form of legal protection that can be given to a natural area by the governments of New Zealand and Australia.
		The subantarctic islands also have some interesting landbirds, some of which are endemic, and in particular we shall be hoping to see Chatham Island Oystercatcher, the strange Shore Plover, Auckland Island Snipe, Chatham Islands Pigeon, Antipodes Island Parakeet and Chatham Island Gerygone.
	www.oceanadventures.co.uk /antarticAust_OA_tour01.cfm (3560 words)

	About Antipodes Tours (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The islands of the South Pacific have fed the world's fantasies for centuries now, since sailors first began returning from them with tales of beautiful maidens, crescent white-sand beaches, crystal-blue water, fish as colorful as jewels and sunshine year round.
		As more people traveled to and through "The Antipodes," as this exotic new region on the other side of the earth was called, further wonders were revealed: snow-capped mountains, vast deserts, dense tropical forests and unique and gracious cultures.
		Our company emphasizes quality, and comfort every step of the way, because we believe that each traveler who journeys with Antipodes Tours should return home with memories to treasure for a lifetime.
	www.antipodestours.com /History/history.htm (166 words)

	World InfoZone - New Zealand Information - Page 1
		The Southern Alps dominate South Island and North Island is hilly with coastal plains and volcanic mountains.
		The climate is temperate with regional variations: sub-tropical in the north to sub-arctic in the higher elevations of South Island.
		World Heritage sites are the New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands, south-east of New Zealand (the Antipodes Islands, Auckland Islands, Bounty Islands, Campbell Island and the Snares), Tongariro National Park in the centre of North Island, and Te Wahipounamu in South West New Zealand.
	www.worldinfozone.com /country.php?country=NewZealand (488 words)

	Archipelago - Related Items - MSN Encarta
		Canadian Arctic Archipelago, largest group of islands in world
		Malay Archipelago, largest system of island groups in world
		, an isolated group of small islands in the south Pacific Ocean, southeast of New Zealand and included in the geographical boundaries...
	encarta.msn.com /related_681500435_9.1/Antipodes_Islands.html (40 words)

	GIN - Global Islands Network Island Links Directory - the number one source of information on Islands and Island issues
		Listed below is what we believe to be the most comprehensive directory of websites directly relating to specific islands and island groups currently available online.
		The directory is easily navigated, being categorised on two levels, first by geographic region and secondly by island or island group name.
		All websites listed here have been individually chosen based on their quality of content and appropriateness to the specific island(s) they represent.
	www.globalislands.net /links/islands/islands.php?mfxsr=4 (146 words)

	antipodes - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Antipodes, antipodes : Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
		Antipodes, antipodes : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
		Phrases that include antipodes: antipodes in geography, antipodes island parakeet, antipodes islands new zealand, megadyptes antipodes
	www.onelook.com /?w=antipodes (222 words)

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		Clark, M.R. and Dingwall, P.R. Conservation of islands in the Southern Ocean: a review of the protected areas of Insulantarctica.
		Sealing to 1830s depleted stocks, whaling station 1909-1916; sheep-farming and cattle 1895-1931 with burning of scrub for pasture, causing erosion and major vegetation changes, 4000 sheep and over 20 cattle left on island; coast watch and weather station 1941-present.
		Forest of Olearia lyallii, with some Senecio stewartiae, ferns in subcanopy and gullies, dense scrub on forest margins, grassland in coastal areas between cliffs and forest, and on Broughton Island; islets of Western Chain are bare; rocky coasts with Durvillea kelp Forest
	islands.unep.ch /IJR.htm (839 words)

	Noonsite: New Zealand's Subantarctic Islands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Quarantine is strict to prevent the introduction of non-native pests; DOC officials may carry out checks at the ports of departure from New Zealand.
		Entry to the islands is by permit only, issued by the DOC.
		No tourists or sailors are allowed to visit the Bounty Islands (47°42'S 179°03'E), the Antipodes Islands (49°41'S 178°48'E) or Snares Islands (48°02'S 166°35'S).
	www.noonsite.com /Countries/NewZealandsSubantarcticIslands (215 words)

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