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Key facts
- Area
- 1 km (0.39 sq mi)
- Highest elevation
- 73 m (240 ft)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- HMS Bounty
- Country
- New Zealand
- Area
- 1.35
- Elevation
- 90
- Body of water
- Pacific Ocean
- Image
- Bounty Islands Sub-Antarctic New Zealand Panorama 1.jpg
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- Commons category
- Bounty Islands
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- native label
- Bounty Islands
- time of discovery or invention
- 1788-00-00
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
The Bounty Islands (Māori: Moutere Hauriri; "Island of angry wind") are a small group of uninhabited granite islets and numerous rocks, with a combined area of around 50 ha (120 acres) in the South Pacific Ocean. Territorially part of New Zealand, they lie about 670 km (420 mi) east-south-east of New Zealand's South Island, 530 km (330 mi) south-west of the Chatham Islands, and 215 km (134 mi) north of the Antipodes Islands. The group is a World Heritage Site.
The islands are listed with the New Zealand Outlying Islands. The islands are an immediate part of New Zealand, but not part of any region or district. Rather, they are listed as an Area Outside Territorial Authority, similar to all other outlying islands except for the Solander Islands.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bounty Islands” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.