Auckland Islands

British  

plural noun

1. a group of six uninhabited islands, south of New Zealand. Area: 611 sq km (234 sq miles)

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Example Sentences

Auckland Islands, a group of small islands 180 m.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin

We have many a long league to go over before we can reach even the Auckland Islands; and I pray that the weather may continue fine till we get there.”

From The Voyages of the Ranger and Crusader And what befell their Passengers and Crews. by Kingston, William Henry Giles

We noticed, too, that most of them were similar to the fish about the group of Lord Auckland Islands, in a latitude as low as fifty-one degrees south.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3 by Poe, Edgar Allan

On November 28 we took several soundings on the eastern side of the Auckland Islands, but did not prolong our stay as we wished to investigate the ridge south of Tasmania—the Mill Rise.

From The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Mawson, Douglas, Sir

This was a main object during 1840, the expedition remaining at the Auckland Islands for this purpose; and it was not till the 1st of January, 1841, that it entered the antarctic circle.

From The Economist Volume 1, No. 3 by Wilson, James