Sentences with phrase «subantarctic island»
When the rabbits were put on Enderby Island, it was an uninhabited subantarctic island of the Auckland Islands, and they were to serve as food for castaways.
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Long recognised for their rich biodiversity, the Subantarctic islands lying to the south of New Zealand are World Heritage sites, afforded the highest conservation status and protection by both the Australian and New Zealand governments.
On this cruise aboard Le Lapérouse, PONANT invites you to discover the primitive beauty of the Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand.
She told me that her wish list travels were Jordan and Iran, until I came to stay with her and blindsided her with the idea of the Subantarctic Islands!
One of these areas is the Subantarctic islands, scattered across the Southern Ocean and holding about 8,000 km2 of glacier ice in all.
use the subantarctic islands as thermometers of climatic change by using trees, peats and lakes to explore the past
To better understand what effect recent changes in the winds are having across the Southern Ocean, the first leg of the expedition was dedicated to working across the magnificent New Zealand subantarctic islands Campbell, Auckland and the Snares.
produce the first underwater surveys of life in the subantarctic islands and Commonwealth Bay
The little explored subantarctic islands in the Southern Ocean have experienced some of the most significant warming.
Not exact matches
For the first time, the researchers have carried out a ten - year population study of two seabird species: brown skuas living in the Kerguelen Islands (Subantarctic) and south polar skuas living in Adélie Land (Antarctica).
Mammals found on the island include: subantarctic fur seals, Antarctic fur seals, New Zealand fur seals and southern elephant seals — over 80,000 individuals of this species.
A subantarctic archipelago is making «huge news»: The New Zealand Herald reports there are officially no more mice on the country's Antipodes Islands, which once housed up to 200,000 of the rodents.
Towards evening as we approach the islands we are closer to the Subantarctic and sub tropical convergence and we see a subtle change in the species composition.