Discovered in 1791
The Snares Islands, home to millions of sea and land birds, were discovered independently on the same day — 23 November 1791. Captain George Vancouver, in HMS Discovery, sighted the island in the morning, and Lieutenant William R. Broughton, of HMS Chatham, saw them in the afternoon. Vancouver named the group The Snares because of "their lurking situation and appearance’"’. There is one large triangular island (North East Island), a smaller island off to the southeast (Broughton Island), and several off-shore islets, pinnacles, and reefs.
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Forest and Bird, Volume 14, Issue 6, 1 May 1983, Page 2
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