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| | Chatham Islands, New Zealand |
 | | For one, it is one of the few oceanic islands or archipelagoes that resides between 40 and 50 degrees either north or south latitude. |
 | | So back to Chatham Island, and as we land I realize, in my imaginary global tour, that this is one of the few inhabited oceanic island groups in the world at this general latitude, in either the northern or southern hemisphere. |
 | | Also present was the endemic Chatham Island mahoe or Melicytus chathamica of the Violaceae family, with lance-shaped, sharply-toothed leaves 5-12 centimeters long, growing as an understory tree to 5 meters tall in rapidly revegetating regions of the coastal reserves. |
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