NEW ZEALAND.— ADJACENT ISLANDS. 



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nearly uninhabited. The other more southerly groups — Bounty, Aiitijiodes, Auck- 

 land, Campbell, Macquarie — were never occupied except by temporary visitors, 

 shipwrecked crews, or whalers. In 1874 Campbell was the station chosen by the 

 French astronomers for observing the transit of Yenus across the solar disc. On 

 the same occasion the German expedition occupied Auckland, which is permanently 

 inhabited only by a single family of graziers. 



The Kermadec islands, lying some 600 miles north-east of New Zealand on the 



Fig. 198. — Peovinces of New Zealand. 

 Scale 1 : 13,000,000. 



300 Miles. 



submarine bed connecting this archipelago with the Tonga group, were formally 

 annexed to Australia and to the British colonial empire in 1887. When discovered 

 in the last century by Watts and d'Entrecasteaux they were uninhabited, and 

 have remained in nearly the same state ever since. At present the large island of 

 Raoul (Sunday Island) has a little village at the foot of its wooded volcanic cone 

 1,600 feet high. A depot of supplies for shipwrecked sailors has here been estab- 



