Broughton Island is the second largest island of The Snares, at 48°02′10"S 166°37′0"E just off the South Promontory of the main island North East Island

North East Island, New Zealand

The North East Island is the main island of the Snares Island group at approximately south of New Zealand's South Island. The island forms a central triangle with peninsulas to the north, south and to the west and is some long by wide. Off the South Promontory lies Broughton Island, the second...

, which lies approximately 200 kilometres (124.3 mi) south of New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

's South Island

South Island

The South Island is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand, the other being the more populous North Island. It is bordered to the north by Cook Strait, to the west by the Tasman Sea, to the south and east by the Pacific Ocean...

. The island is some 1 by long in SW direction, and the highest elevation is 86 m (282 ft). The island is named after William Robert Broughton

William Robert Broughton

William Robert Broughton was a British naval officer in the late 18th century. As a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy, he commanded HMS Chatham as part of the Vancouver Expedition, a voyage of exploration through the Pacific Ocean led by Captain George Vancouver in the early 1790s.-With Vancouver:In...

See also

• List of islands of New Zealand
• New Zealand sub-antarctic islands
  New Zealand sub-antarctic islands
  The five southernmost groups of the New Zealand Outlying Islands form the New Zealand Sub-Antarctic islands. These islands are collectively designated as an UNESCO World Heritage Site....
  
  
• List of sub-Antarctic islands