Exploration & discovery

1907 Sub-Antarctic Islands Scientific Expedition

from 14 November 1907 to 30 November 1907

New Zealand scientific expedition organised by the Philosophical Institute of Canterbury to extend the magnetic survey of New Zealand by investigating the Auckland and Campbell Islands and to conduct botanical, biological and zoological surveys. It began on 14 November 1907 and lasted until 30 November 1907 (about 16 days). The setting was Subantarctic. Those involved included George Vernon Hudson, Leonard Cockayne, Bernard Cracroft Aston and Arthur Algernon Dorrien-Smith.

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