Curtis Island, New Zealand

Curtis Iceland is an uninhabited volcanic island in the southwest Pacific. It is separated from the about 500 meters north-west Iceland Cheeseman by the Stella Passage and how this part of the management of New Zealand Kermadecinseln. Both islands, collectively called Curtis Islands, located on a lying otherwise about 500 meters below the ocean's back, the Kermadec Ridge. The 18.3 to a maximum of 24 meters deep Stella Passage has strong currents.

Curtis Iceland is located about 35 kilometers south of Macauley Iceland and about 150 kilometers southwest of the main island of Raoul. It provides with a land area of 0.4 km ² is the third largest in the Kermadecinseln and reaches a height of 137 meters above the sea. Almost the entire northern part of the island is occupied by a 300 to 400 meters long and 200 meters wide volcanic crater whose bottom is about 10 meters above the sea surface. In the crater fumaroles are active. Eruptions of the volcano in historical time are not known; whether it is in the vicinity of the island came to submarine eruptions in 1936 and 2009, is uncertain. In the last 200 years, the island has lifted to 18 meters. Because of the elevation and the active fumaroles Curtis Iceland is classified as potentially active volcano.

The Macdonald Cove in the north of the island was a bay that could land on the boats. Due to the elevation of the island, the former Bay is now dry land.

Named after the island is an officer of the British ship Lady Penrhyn, from which the island was discovered in the late 1780s.

The radius of 12 nautical miles around the island is part of the managed by the Department of Conservation 7450 km ² large marine reserve Kermadec Islands Marine Reserve. The island can be accessed only with a special permit and only for scientific purposes. It is densely populated by seabirds.