Enderby Island

Enderby Iceland is the third largest island of New Zealand to belong Auckland Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean. It is located directly off the north coast of the main island of Iceland Auckland. Is named the island after Samuel Enderby Jr., the founder of a whaling company, the whalers Ocean the Auckland Islands in 1806 discovered.

History

On Enderby Iceland remains of a Polynesian settlement have been discovered around the 13th century. That is until today the world's southernmost locality of all Polynesian settlements dar. On 20 March 1887 registered in Boston Bark Derry Castle ran with 23 people on board on the way from Geelong in Victoria to Falmouth in Cornwall before Enderby Iceland due. The castaways held out for half a year on the windy and wet and cold, about 4 x 2 km wide, the island until they were returned on 21 September 1887 by the Awarua, which was located at the Auckland Islands on illegal hunting of seals, to Victoria. Only eight castaways survived. End of the 19th century a settlement attempt began on the island, but this was abandoned because of the harsh climate, a short time later.

Wildlife ( fauna)

On Enderby come, among others, the New Zealand sea lion ( Phocarctos hookeri ) as well as seabirds like the Aucklandscharbe (Phalacrocorax colensoi ) or the yellow-eyed penguin ( Megadyptes antipodes ) ago.

The 1894 brought by the settlers Shorthorn cattle lived, left after abandonment of the settlement itself, nor about one hundred years on the island and destroyed it almost the entire flora. It was therefore decided their elimination by the New Zealand Department of Conservation; In February 1993, the last surviving cow was brought to the mainland. Currently, an attempt is made, for example by cloning to preserve these so-called Enderby Iceland Cattle from extinction. In addition, rabbits were exposed, their descendants, the Enderby - Iceland - rabbit, were also destroyed in the early 1990s along with the entrained mice. Some Enderby Iceland rabbits were previously brought to New Zealand where they are grown today.

• Wildlife

A Aucklandscharbe on the coast Enderby

Yellow -eyed penguins at Enderby Iceland