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Auckland Islands

The Auckland Islands form a sub-antarctic archipelago of New Zealand. Now uninhabited, they saw an unsuccessful settlement in the mid-19th century: an attempt to set up a community based on agriculture and on whaling.

See other islands of New Zealand.

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