New Zealand's Subantarctic Islands
Edited by Tom O’Connor, 104pp limp, Reed Publishing, Auckland 2000, RRP$29.95 The Department of Conservation’s 1991 guidebook to its southern island reserves re-emerges here as a larger ‘consumer’ book. It is basically a pictorial primer to a wonderful natural heritage closed to most New Zealanders. The island groups are all national nature reserves with extremely limited access, remote from the mainland of New Zealand. In 1998 they were further protected as elements in New Zealand’s third
World Heritage Area, covering the Snares, the Auckland islands, Campbell islands, Antipodes and Bounty. There is a great selection of pictures by DoC folk and others who have worked on the islands evoking the atmosphere of these cold, grey places; unfortunately the pictorial approach has led to some of them being enlarged too much. The text is a useful summary of species special to these wild places.
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Forest and Bird, Issue 297, 1 August 2000, Page 48
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