Curtis Island (Kermadec Islands)
- Curtis Island (Kermadec Islands)
Curtis Island is an island in the southwest Pacific (located at coord|30|33|S|178|34|W|). It is a volcanic island with an elevation of 130 m and an area of 0.6 km². Together with neighboring Cheeseman Island it belongs to the Kermadec Islands. Politically it is part of New Zealand.
Lieutenant John Cliffe Watts, RN was the first European to visit the Macauley and Curtis Islands — which he named after two of his officers — on the "Lady Penrhyn" in the late 1780's. Count von Luckner, Commander of the German raider "Seeadler" during the First World War, stopped off at Curtis Island to replenish his stores from the depot left there by the New Zealand Marine Department (for the use of shipwrecked crews) while attempting to make good his escape from New Zealand to South America. The Kermadec Islands lie halfway between North Island, New Zealand and Tonga at approximately the latitude of the Gold Coast, Queensland
External links
* [http://www.doc.govt.nz/templates/podcover.aspx?id=33862 Kermadec Marine Reserve (New Zealand Department of Conservation)]
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