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...

 consists of a large number of islands.
The two main islands, which are much larger than the rest and where most of the population lives, are the North Island

North Island

The North Island is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the much less populous South Island by Cook Strait. The island is in area, making it the world's 14th-largest island...

 and the 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 latter is often referred to as the "mainland", especially by its residents, it being somewhat larger but having a lower population. Stewart Island/Rakiura

Stewart Island/Rakiura

Stewart Island/Rakiura is the third-largest island of New Zealand. It lies south of the South Island, across Foveaux Strait. Its permanent population is slightly over 400 people, most of whom live in the settlement of Oban.- History and naming :...

 is by far the biggest of the smaller islands, although Waiheke Island

Waiheke Island

Waiheke Island is an island in the Hauraki Gulf of New Zealand, located about from Auckland.The island is the second-largest in the Hauraki Gulf after Great Barrier Island. It is the most populated, with nearly 8,000 permanent residents plus another estimated 3,400 who have second or holiday homes...

 has the largest population of the smaller islands.

The following is a list of some of the islands of New Zealand:

Listed by size

The following table lists the largest islands of New Zealand by size. The Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau, and islands of the Ross Dependency are excluded. Delta islands such as Rakaia Island (25.7 km²), Rangitata Island

Rangitata Island

Rangitata Island is a long lens-shaped island in the delta of the braided Rangitata River in Canterbury, New Zealand, approximately halfway between Timaru and Ashburton, New Zealand. The island is approximately 17 kilometres in length, and is about five kilometres wide at its widest point...

 and Inch Clutha

Inch Clutha

Inch Clutha is a large, flat island sitting in the delta between the Matau and Koau branches of the Clutha River, downstream from the town of Balclutha in the South Island of New Zealand...

 (approximately 30 km² and 35 km² respectively) are also currently omitted, as are temporary islands in braided river

Braided river

A braided river is one of a number of channel types and has a channel that consists of a network of small channels separated by small and often temporary islands called braid bars or, in British usage, aits or eyots. Braided streams occur in rivers with high slope and/or large sediment load...

 channels and tidal islands such as Rabbit Island, Nelson (17km²). The country's largest island within a lake, Pomona Island

Pomona Island

Pomona Island is the largest island within Lake Manapouri, in Fiordland National Park, in New Zealand's South Island. With an area of , it is one of the largest islands to be found within any New Zealand lake....

, has an area of just 2.6 km².

Rank	English name	Māori name	km2	% of NZ Area	Population
1	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...	Te Wai Pounamu	151215	56.2%
2	North Island North Island The North Island is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the much less populous South Island by Cook Strait. The island is in area, making it the world's 14th-largest island...	Te Ika-a-Māui	113729	42.3%
3	Stewart Island	Rakiura	1746	0.6%	400
4	Chatham Island	Rekohu (Moriori); Wharekauri (Māori)	900	0.3%	600
5	Auckland Island Auckland Island Auckland Island is the main island of the Auckland Islands, an uninhabited archipelago in the south Pacific Ocean belonging to New Zealand. It is inscribed in the together with the other subantarctic New Zealand islands in the region as follows: 877-004 Auckland Isls, New Zealand S50.29 E165.52...		510	0.2%	0
6	Great Barrier Island Great Barrier Island Great Barrier Island is a large island of New Zealand, situated to the north-east of central Auckland in the outer Hauraki Gulf. With an area of it is the fourth-largest island of New Zealand's main chain of islands, with its highest point, Mount Hobson, rising...	Aotea	285	0.1%	850
7	Resolution Island Resolution Island, New Zealand Resolution Island is the largest island in Fiordland region of southwest New Zealand, covering a total of . It is the country's seventh largest island...	Taumoana	208	0.1%	0
8	d'Urville Island D'Urville Island, New Zealand D'Urville Island is an island in the Marlborough Sounds along the northern coast of the South Island of New Zealand. It was named after the French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville. With an area of approximately , it is the eighth-largest island of New Zealand, and has around 52 permanent...	Rangitoto Ki Te Tonga	150	<0.1%	About 52
9	Campbell Island Campbell Island, New Zealand Campbell Island is a remote, subantarctic island of New Zealand and the main island of the Campbell Island group. It covers of the group's , and is surrounded by numerous stacks, rocks and islets like Dent Island, Folly Island , Isle de Jeanette Marie, and Jacquemart Island, the latter being the...	Motu Ihupuku	115	<0.1%	0
10	Adams Island Adams Island, New Zealand Adams Island is part of Auckland Islands archipelago. The southern end of Auckland Island broadens to a width of where a narrow channel, known as Carnley Harbour or the Adams Straits, separates it from the roughly triangular Adams Island , which is even more mountainous, reaching a height of at...		100	<0.1%	0
11	Waiheke Island Waiheke Island Waiheke Island is an island in the Hauraki Gulf of New Zealand, located about from Auckland.The island is the second-largest in the Hauraki Gulf after Great Barrier Island. It is the most populated, with nearly 8,000 permanent residents plus another estimated 3,400 who have second or holiday homes...		92	<0.1%	7,700
12	Secretary Island Secretary Island Secretary Island is an island in southwestern New Zealand, lying entirely within Fiordland National Park. Roughly triangular in shape, it lies between Doubtful Sound in the south and Thompson Sound in the north, with its west coast facing the Tasman Sea. Steeply sloped, it rises to nearly...	Rangitoa	81	<0.1%	0
13	Arapawa Island Arapawa Island Arapawa Island is a small island located in the Marlborough Sounds, at the north east tip of the South Island of New Zealand.The island has a land area of...		75	<0.1%
14	Pitt Island	Rangiaotea (Moriori) or Rangiauria (Maori)	62	<0.1%
15	Matakana Island Matakana Island Matakana Island is located in the western Bay of Plenty in New Zealand's North Island. A long, flat island, it is in length but rarely more than wide. The island has been continuously populated for centuries by a number Māori tribes that are mostly associated with Ngai Te Rangi...		60	<0.1%	225
16	Raoul Island Raoul Island Anvil-shaped Raoul Island , the largest and northernmost of the main Kermadec Islands, , has been the source of vigorous volcanic activity during the past several thousand years that was dominated by dacitic explosive eruptions.The area of the island, including fringing islets and rocks...	Rangitahua	29.4	<0.1%	6
17	Little Barrier Island	Hauturu	28		0
18	Rangitoto Island Rangitoto Island Rangitoto Island is a volcanic island in the Hauraki Gulf near Auckland, New Zealand. The 5.5 km wide island is an iconic and widely visible landmark of Auckland with its distinctive symmetrical shield volcano cone rising 260 metres high over the Hauraki Gulf...		23.1		0
19	Antipodes Island		20		0
20	Kapiti Island Kapiti Island -External links:* , Department of Conservation* * , Nature Coast Enterprise *...		19.7		0
21	Kawau Island Kawau Island Kawau Island is an island in the Hauraki Gulf, close to the north-eastern coast of the North Island of New Zealand. At its closest point it lies off the coast of the North Auckland Peninsula, just south of Tawharanui Peninsula, and about by sea journey from Sandspit Wharf, and shelters Kawau Bay...		19		81
22	Long Island, Southland Long Island, Southland Long Island is an island in Fiordland, in the southwest of New Zealand's South Island. It lies within Dusky Sound, to the southeast of Resolution Island, and is separated from it and the South island mainland by Bowen Channel to the north, and from the South Island mainland by Cook Channel to the...	Motu Roa	18.8		0
23	Cooper Island	Ure Toto	17.8		0
24	Ponui Island Ponui Island Ponui Island, also known as Chamberlin's Island, is located in the Hauraki Gulf, to the east of the city of Auckland, New Zealand. It is located to the southeast of Waiheke Island, at the eastern end of the Tamaki Strait, which separates the island from the Hunua Ranges on the mainland to the...		17.7		0
25	Great Mercury Island	Ahuahu	17.2		0
26	Ruapuke Island Ruapuke Island Ruapuke Island is one of the southernmost islands in New Zealand's main chain of islands. It lies to the southeast of Bluff and northeast of Oban on Stewart Island/Rakiura. The island covers an area of about . It guards the eastern end of Foveaux Strait...		16		0
27	Anchor Island Anchor Island Anchor Island is a island in Dusky Sound, Fiordland National Park in the Southland district of New Zealand. The island has an elevation of and is from the New Zealand mainland. It is now used by the Department of Conservation as a safe haven for endangered birds such as Tieke and the Kakapo....	Puke Nui	15.2		0
28	Motutapu Island Motutapu Island Motutapu Island is a island in the Hauraki Gulf to the northeast of the city of Auckland, New Zealand. The island is part of the Hauraki Gulf Maritime Park....		15.1		0
29	Codfish Island Codfish Island Codfish Island or Whenua Hou is a small island located to the west of Stewart Island/Rakiura in southern New Zealand. It reaches a height of close to the south coast. Following the eradication of possums and weka, it is a predator-free bird sanctuary and the focus of Kakapo recovery efforts...	Whenua Hou	14		0
30	Mayor Island	Tuhua	13		0
31	Coal Island	Te Puka-Hereka	11.6		0
32	Motiti Island Motiti Island Motiti Island is located off the Bay of Plenty coast of New Zealand's North Island. It is north-east of Tauranga and north-east of Papamoa. There were 18 homes occupied by 27 people on the island in the 2006 Census....		10		27
33	Big South Cape Island	Taukihepa	9.4		0

In harbours and the open sea

• Aiguilles Island
  Aiguilles Island
  Aiguilles Island is an uninhabited island just to the northeast of Great Barrier Island in the Northland Region of New Zealand. The island reaches a height of and is from the New Zealand mainland.-External links:***...
  
  
• Alderman Islands
  Alderman Islands
  The Aldermen Islands are a small group of rocky islets to the southeast of Mercury Bay in the North Island of New Zealand. They are located off the coast of the Coromandel Peninsula, east of the mouth of the Tairua River....
  
  
• Allports Island
  Allports Island
  Allports Island is an island located in Queen Charlotte Sound in Marlborough, New Zealand. It reaches a height of and is from the New Zealand mainland....
  
  
• Amerikiwhati Island
  Amerikiwhati Island
  Amerikiwhati Island is a small island in the Marlborough administrative region of New Zealand. It lies in Queen Charlotte Sound where it is an extension of the ridge dividing Ahitarakihi Bay from Waikakaramea Bay on Arapawa Island....
  
  
• Anatakupu Island
  Anatakupu Island
  Anatakupu Island is an island in the Nelson district of New Zealand. A navigational beacon is proposed for the island for sailors travelling along the French Pass.-External links:*...
  
  
• Anchor Island
  Anchor Island
  Anchor Island is a island in Dusky Sound, Fiordland National Park in the Southland district of New Zealand. The island has an elevation of and is from the New Zealand mainland. It is now used by the Department of Conservation as a safe haven for endangered birds such as Tieke and the Kakapo....
  
  
• Anchorage Island
  Anchorage Island, New Zealand
  Anchorage Island is a tiny island located off the southwest coast of Stewart Island/Rakiura, New Zealand and part of Rakiura National Park....
  
  
• Aorangaia Island
  Aorangaia Island
  Aorangaia Island is an island in the Northland Region of New Zealand, part of the Poor Knights Islands. It has a highest point of and is from the New Zealand mainland....
  
  
• Araara Island
  Araara Island
  Araara Island is an island in the Northland Region of New Zealand....
  
  
• Arakaninihi Island
  Arakaninihi Island
  Arakaninihi Island is a small island in the Northland Region of New Zealand. It lies off Taiharuru Head, directly east of Whangarei....
  
  
• Arapawa Island
  Arapawa Island
  Arapawa Island is a small island located in the Marlborough Sounds, at the north east tip of the South Island of New Zealand.The island has a land area of...
  
  
• Aroha Island
  Aroha Island
  Aroha Island is a small island near Rangitane, which is about by road from Kerikeri in the Bay of Islands, Northland, New Zealand. It is owned and managed by the Queen Elizabeth II National Trust and is a major habitat for the North Island Brown Kiwi. It is linked to the mainland via a causeway....
  
  
• Bare Island
  Bare Island, New Zealand
  Bare Island, also known as Motu-O-Kura , is a small island located in the Pacific Ocean in the southern Hawke's Bay on the eastern North Island of New Zealand...
  
  
• Bells Island
• Bench Island
• Bests Island
• Big South Cape Island
• Blumine Island
  Blumine Island
  Blumine Island, or Oruawairua in the Māori language, is in the Marlborough Sounds in the South Island of New Zealand.Blumine Island is approx and is mostly hill country. It is the site of a scenic reserve meaning anyone can visit the island...
  
  
• Breaksea Island, New Zealand
  Breaksea Island, New Zealand
  Breaksea Island is a rugged island in the southwest of New Zealand, and is part of Fiordland National Park. Its highest point is asl and it lies about from the mainland in the entrance to Breaksea Sound, north of Resolution Island...
  
  
• The Brothers
  The Brothers, New Zealand
  The Brothers is a group of tiny islands in Cook Strait, New Zealand, off the east coast of Arapawa Island.North Brother island in this small chain is a sanctuary for the rare reptile species, the Brothers Island tuatara while the largest of the islands is the site of the Brothers Island...
  
  
• Browns Island, Auckland
  Browns Island, Auckland
  Browns Island or Motukorea is a small New Zealand island, in the Hauraki Gulf north of Musick Point, one of the best preserved volcanoes in the Auckland Volcanic Field. The age of eruption is currently unknown. Due to centuries of cultivation, little native bush remains except on the north-eastern...
  
  
• Cavalli Islands
  Cavalli Islands
  The Cavalli Islands are a small group of islands in Whangaroa on Northland's East Coast in northern New Zealand. They lie to the east of Matauri Bay on the mainland....
  
  
• Chalky Island

• Codfish Island/Whenuahou
  Codfish Island
  Codfish Island or Whenua Hou is a small island located to the west of Stewart Island/Rakiura in southern New Zealand. It reaches a height of close to the south coast. Following the eradication of possums and weka, it is a predator-free bird sanctuary and the focus of Kakapo recovery efforts...
  
  
• Cuvier Island
  Cuvier Island
  Cuvier Island is a small island off the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It lies on the seaward end of the Colville Channel, north of the Mercury Islands and approximately south-east of Great Barrier Island...
  
  
• D'Urville Island
  D'Urville Island, New Zealand
  D'Urville Island is an island in the Marlborough Sounds along the northern coast of the South Island of New Zealand. It was named after the French explorer Jules Dumont d'Urville. With an area of approximately , it is the eighth-largest island of New Zealand, and has around 52 permanent...
  
  
• Dragon Island
  Dragon Island
  Dragon Island is a privately owned island off the northeast coast of New Zealand's Great Barrier Island. It is located to the northeast of Auckland....
  
  
• East Island/Whangaokeno
  East Island/Whangaokeno
  East Island/Whangaokeno is a small island approximately east of East Cape in the North Island of New Zealand. Reaching an elevation of , it was the original location for the East Cape Lighthouse, which was built in 1900. However, the island is prone to earthquakes and its steep cliffs cause...
  
  
• Gannet Island
  Gannet Island
  Gannet Island is a small island some offshore from Kawhia on the west coast of New Zealand's North Island. Protected as a wildlife sanctuary, it was found to be the country's largest single breeding colony of Australasian Gannets in a 1980 census.The island consists of the eroded remnant of a...
  
  
• Goat Island, Auckland
• Goat Island, Otago Harbour
• Goat Island/Te Mapoutahi
• Great Barrier Island/Aotea
  Great Barrier Island
  Great Barrier Island is a large island of New Zealand, situated to the north-east of central Auckland in the outer Hauraki Gulf. With an area of it is the fourth-largest island of New Zealand's main chain of islands, with its highest point, Mount Hobson, rising...
  
  
• Green Island
  Green Island, New Zealand
  Green Island is an island off the coast of Dunedin, New Zealand, also the name of one of the city's suburbs. The suburb is not on the sea — formerly a borough, it took its name from the Green Island bush, uncleared native forest extending from the valley where the town is centred over the hills...
  
  
• Hen and Chicken Islands
  Hen and Chicken Islands
  The Hen and Chickens Islands lie to the east of the North Auckland Peninsula off the coast of northern New Zealand. They are located to the east of Bream Head and southeast of Whangarei....
  
  
• Herald Island, Waitemata Harbour
  Waitemata Harbour
  The quite famous Waitemata Harbour is the main access by sea to Auckland, New Zealand. For this reason it is often referred to as Auckland Harbour, despite the fact that it is only one of two harbours surrounding the city, and is crossed by the Auckland Harbour Bridge. The Waitemata forms the north...
  
  
• Kaikoura Island
  Kaikoura Island
  Kaikoura Island lies to the west of Great Barrier Island in the Hauraki Gulf in New Zealand. Kaikoura Island is the seventh largest island in the Hauraki Gulf, north east of Auckland...
  
  
• Kapiti Island
  Kapiti Island
  -External links:* , Department of Conservation* * , Nature Coast Enterprise *...
  
  
• Kawau Island
• King Billy Island
• Kopuahingahinga Island, Manukau Harbour
  Manukau Harbour
  Manukau Harbour is the second largest natural harbour in New Zealand by area. It is located to the southwest of the Auckland isthmus, and is an arm of the Tasman Sea.-Geography:...
  
  
• Little Barrier Island (Hauturu)
• Long Island, Marlborough
• Long Island, Southland
  Long Island, Southland
  Long Island is an island in Fiordland, in the southwest of New Zealand's South Island. It lies within Dusky Sound, to the southeast of Resolution Island, and is separated from it and the South island mainland by Bowen Channel to the north, and from the South Island mainland by Cook Channel to the...
  
  
• Makaro/Ward Island
  Makaro/Ward Island
  Makaro/Ward island is one of the three small islands in Wellington Harbour, at the Southern end of the North Island, New Zealand.Ward Island is on the eastern side of the harbour, about west of the town of Eastbourne. It is about long and wide, with the long axis aligned North/South...
  
  
• Mana Island
  Mana Island, New Zealand
  Mana Island is the smaller of two islands that lie off the southwest coast of the North Island of New Zealand . The island’s name is an abbreviation of Te Mana o Kupe, "the mana of Kupe"....
  
  
• Matakana Island
  Matakana Island
  Matakana Island is located in the western Bay of Plenty in New Zealand's North Island. A long, flat island, it is in length but rarely more than wide. The island has been continuously populated for centuries by a number Māori tribes that are mostly associated with Ngai Te Rangi...
  
  
• Matiu/Somes Island
  Matiu/Somes Island
  Matiu/Somes Island, at , is the largest of three islands in the northern half of Wellington Harbour, New Zealand. It lies south of the suburb of Petone and the mouth of the Hutt River, and about northwest of the much smaller Makaro/Ward Island....
  
  
• Maud Island/Te Hoiere
  Maud Island
  Maud Island, originally called Te Hoiere in the Māori language, is the second-largest island in the Marlborough Sounds on the northern tip of the South Island of New Zealand, with a total area of .-Fauna:...
  
  
• Mayor Island/Tuhua
  Mayor Island/Tuhua
  Mayor Island is a dormant shield volcano located off the Bay of Plenty coast of New Zealand's North Island. It lies north of Tauranga and covers . The island is quite steep along its coast and rises to about sea level. A saddle about deep separates it from the North Island, while the other...
  
  
• Mercury Islands
  Mercury Islands
  The Mercury Islands lie off the northeast coast of New Zealand's North Island. They are located off the coast of the Coromandel Peninsula, and northeast of the town of Whitianga....
  
  
• Mokohinau Islands
  Mokohinau Islands
  The Mokohinau Islands are a small group of islands that lie off the northeast coast of New Zealand's North Island. The islands are northwest of Great Barrier Island and approximately east of Bream Head. Most of them are managed by the Department of Conservation as nature reserves and wildlife...
  
  
• Mokopuna Island
  Mokopuna Island
  Mokopuna Island is a small island in Wellington Harbour, New Zealand. It is about on its long axis and about across. It lies immediately north of the much larger Matiu/Somes Island, from which it is separated by a channel about wide....
  
  
• Motiti Island
  Motiti Island
  Motiti Island is located off the Bay of Plenty coast of New Zealand's North Island. It is north-east of Tauranga and north-east of Papamoa. There were 18 homes occupied by 27 people on the island in the 2006 Census....
  
  
• Motuihe Island
  Motuihe Island
  Motuihe Island lies between Motutapu and Waiheke islands in the Hauraki Gulf of New Zealand, near Auckland. The island measures about , of which around are remnants of coastal forest. The island is a recreation reserve controlled by the Department of Conservation and administered by the Motuihe...
  
  
• Motukawao Islands
  Motukawao Islands
  The Motukawao Islands are the northernmost of several small groups of islands that lie in the Hauraki Gulf off the west coast of the Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand. They lie some to the southwest of Colville, and are uninhabited. The largest of the islands are Motuwi and Ngamotukaraka Islands;...
  
  
• Motunau Island
• Motuoroi Island
  Motuoroi Island
  Motuoroi Island is a small island off the northeast of New Zealand's North Island. It is located close to the small settlement of Anaura, halfway between Tolaga Bay and Tokomaru Bay....
  
  
• Moturata/Taieri Island
  Moturata/Taieri Island
  Moturata, also called Taieri Island, is an island in the mouth of the Taieri River in southern New Zealand. It is connected to the mainland by a sandy causeway at low tide....
  
  
• Motutapu Island
  Motutapu Island
  Motutapu Island is a island in the Hauraki Gulf to the northeast of the city of Auckland, New Zealand. The island is part of the Hauraki Gulf Maritime Park....
  
  
• Native Island
• Ngarango Otainui Island, Manukau Harbour
  Manukau Harbour
  Manukau Harbour is the second largest natural harbour in New Zealand by area. It is located to the southwest of the Auckland isthmus, and is an arm of the Tasman Sea.-Geography:...
  
  
• Ninepin Rock, Manukau Harbour
  Manukau Harbour
  Manukau Harbour is the second largest natural harbour in New Zealand by area. It is located to the southwest of the Auckland isthmus, and is an arm of the Tasman Sea.-Geography:...
  
  
• Noble Island
• North Island
  North Island
  The North Island is one of the two main islands of New Zealand, separated from the much less populous South Island by Cook Strait. The island is in area, making it the world's 14th-largest island...
  
  
• Opahekeheke Island
• Open Bay Islands
  Open Bay Islands
  The Open Bay Islands are located off the south-west coast of the South Island of New Zealand. The group comprises two main islands Taumaka and Popotai plus several smaller islets and rocks. They lie approximately offshore from the Okuru River mouth, near Haast and are owned by Poutini Ngai...
  
  
• Pakatoa Island
  Pakatoa Island
  Pakatoa Island covers and in the Hauraki Gulf of New Zealand. Purchased in the early 1900's by the Salvation Army it was used as an alcohol treatment centre for women, isolated from the Army's male rehabilitation facility on Rotoroa Island....
  
  
• Pararekau Island, Manukau Harbour
  Manukau Harbour
  Manukau Harbour is the second largest natural harbour in New Zealand by area. It is located to the southwest of the Auckland isthmus, and is an arm of the Tasman Sea.-Geography:...
  
  
• Pearl Island
• Pepin Island
• Piercy Island
  Piercy Island
  Piercy Island, often known simply as "The Hole In The Rock”, is located off the north coast of the North Island of New Zealand. It is at the very northern tip of Cape Brett in the Bay of Islands...
  
  
• Ponui Island
  Ponui Island
  Ponui Island, also known as Chamberlin's Island, is located in the Hauraki Gulf, to the east of the city of Auckland, New Zealand. It is located to the southeast of Waiheke Island, at the eastern end of the Tamaki Strait, which separates the island from the Hunua Ranges on the mainland to the...
  
  
• Poor Knights Islands
  Poor Knights Islands
  The Poor Knights Islands are a group of islands off the east coast of the Northland Region of the North Island of New Zealand. They are located to the northeast of Whangarei, and lie offshore half way between Bream Head and Cape Brett. Uninhabited since the 1820s, they are a nature reserve and...
  
  
• Portland Island
  Portland Island, New Zealand
  Portland Island is a small island off the southern tip of the Mahia Peninsula on the North Island of New Zealand. It is used for sheep farming....
  
  
• Pourewa Island
  Pourewa Island
  Pourewa Island lies in Tolaga Bay, just offshore from Cook’s Cove in New Zealand.It was formerly known as Spöring Island, named by Lt. James Cook after the Finnish draughtsman Herman Spöring, a member of the scientific detachment aboard HM Bark Endeavour, and in 1990 a rock was taken from Pourewa...
  
  
• Puketutu Island
  Puketutu Island
  Puketutu Island is a volcanic island in the Manukau Harbour, New Zealand, and is part of the Auckland volcanic field. European settlers called it Weekes' Island, but this was eventually removed again in favour of the historical Māori name....
  
  , Manukau Harbour
  Manukau Harbour
  Manukau Harbour is the second largest natural harbour in New Zealand by area. It is located to the southwest of the Auckland isthmus, and is an arm of the Tasman Sea.-Geography:...
  
  
• Quail Island
• Quarantine Island/Kamau Taurua
• Rabbit Island
  Rabbit Island, New Zealand
  Rabbit Island is the name of several different islands off the New Zealand coast.The largest and best-known Rabbit Island lies across the southernmost part of Tasman Bay, at the top of New Zealand's South Island...
  
  
• Rakino Island
  Rakino Island
  Rakino Island is one of the many islands in the Hauraki Gulf, an arm of the Pacific Ocean to the northeast of Auckland, New Zealand.Rakino is a small island north-east of Motutapu Island. The island is long and about wide and has an area of . The two most popular bays have public access, but...
  
  
• Rangitoto Island
  Rangitoto Island
  Rangitoto Island is a volcanic island in the Hauraki Gulf near Auckland, New Zealand. The 5.5 km wide island is an iconic and widely visible landmark of Auckland with its distinctive symmetrical shield volcano cone rising 260 metres high over the Hauraki Gulf...
  
  
• Rangitoto Islands, Marlborough
• Raratoka Island
  Raratoka Island
  Raratoka Island is a small island in Foveaux Strait off the coast of Stewart Island / Rakiura, New Zealand. It is located north of Stewart island's northernmost point, Black Rock Point, and southwest of the Southland town of Riverton on the South Island mainland...
  
  
• Resolution Island
  Resolution Island, New Zealand
  Resolution Island is the largest island in Fiordland region of southwest New Zealand, covering a total of . It is the country's seventh largest island...
  
  
• Ripapa Island
  Ripapa Island
  Ripapa Island, just off the shore of Lyttelton Harbour has played many roles in the history of New Zealand. The island initially played a key role in an internal struggle for the south island Ngāi Tahu tribe in the early 19th Century...
  
  
• Rotoroa Island
  Rotoroa Island
  Rotoroa Island is an island to the east of Waiheke Island in the Hauraki Gulf of New Zealand. It covers . The Salvation Army purchased it for £400 in 1908 from the Ruthe family to expand their alcohol and drug rehabilitation facility at nearby Pakatoa Island. Men were treated at Home Bay at...
  
  
• Rurima Rocks, including Rurima Island
  Rurima Island
  Rurima Island is a small island in the Bay of Plenty, off New Zealand's North Island. The island is the largest of the Rurima Rocks, with the smaller Moutoki and Tokata Islands lying about east and west respectively....
  
  
• Ruapuke Island
  Ruapuke Island
  Ruapuke Island is one of the southernmost islands in New Zealand's main chain of islands. It lies to the southeast of Bluff and northeast of Oban on Stewart Island/Rakiura. The island covers an area of about . It guards the eastern end of Foveaux Strait...
  
  
• Quarantine Island/Kamau Taurua
• Secretary Island
  Secretary Island
  Secretary Island is an island in southwestern New Zealand, lying entirely within Fiordland National Park. Roughly triangular in shape, it lies between Doubtful Sound in the south and Thompson Sound in the north, with its west coast facing the Tasman Sea. Steeply sloped, it rises to nearly...
  
  
• Shark Island, Manukau Harbour
  Manukau Harbour
  Manukau Harbour is the second largest natural harbour in New Zealand by area. It is located to the southwest of the Auckland isthmus, and is an arm of the Tasman Sea.-Geography:...
  
  
• Slipper Island
  Slipper Island
  Slipper Island or is located to the east of the Coromandel Peninsula in New Zealand's North Island and southeast of the town of Pauanui. It is a beach resort privately owned by Nora & Abe Needham's 14 children, making it one of the few privately owned islands in New Zealand...
  
  
• 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...
  
  
• Stephens Island/Takapourewa
  Stephens Island, New Zealand
  Stephens Island is at the northern most tip of the Marlborough Sounds in the South Island of New Zealand. It lies two kilometres to the northeast of Cape Stephens, the northernmost point of D'Urville Island. The Māori call the island Takapourewa but Stephens Island is the commonly used name...
  
  
• Stewart Island/Rakiura
  Stewart Island/Rakiura
  Stewart Island/Rakiura is the third-largest island of New Zealand. It lies south of the South Island, across Foveaux Strait. Its permanent population is slightly over 400 people, most of whom live in the settlement of Oban.- History and naming :...
  
  
• Sugar Loaf Islands
  Sugar Loaf Islands
  The Sugar Loaf Islands are a collection of five small uninhabited islands and several sea stacks near Port Taranaki, Taranaki, New Zealand. The largest island, Moturoa Island, covers approximately...
  
  
• Takangaroa
  Takangaroa
  Takangaroa Island is one of the two Mayne Islands located near Kawau Island, in the Hauraki Gulf of New Zealand. It is approximately in size.Its name is Māori, and means "The Long Casting of the Net"...
  
  
• Tapu Te Ranga Motu
• Tarahiki Island
  Tarahiki Island
  Tarahiki Island, also known as Shag Island, is a island in the Hauraki Gulf of New Zealand. Its highest point is ASL and it lies from the mainland and about east of Waiheke Island. It is well known for its breeding colony of up to 700 Spotted Shags....
  
  
• Tiritiri Matangi Island
  Tiritiri Matangi Island
  Tiritiri Matangi Island lies in the Hauraki Gulf of New Zealand, east of the Whangaparaoa Peninsula in the North Island and north east of Auckland. The island is an open nature reserve managed under the supervision of the Department of Conservation and is noted for its bird life, including kiwi...
  
  
• Titi/Muttonbird Islands
  Titi/Muttonbird Islands
  The Tītī or Muttonbird Islands are located near Stewart Island/Rakiura in the far south of New Zealand.There are three chains, all of them simply referred to as the Muttonbird or Tītī islands. The northeastern chain is located in Foveaux Strait, to the northeast of Stewart Island, between it and...
  
  
• Tonga Island
  Tonga Island, New Zealand
  Tonga is a very small island in Tasman Bay, off the northern coast of the South Island of New Zealand. It lies within the Abel Tasman National Park. The island has a flourishing seal colony, and is surrounded by the Tonga Island Marine Reserve, which was inaugurated in 1993. The island is...
  
  
• Ulva Island
  Ulva Island, New Zealand
  Ulva Island is a small island about long lying within Paterson Inlet, which is part of Stewart Island/Rakiura in New Zealand. It has an area of about , the majority of which is public land...
  
  
• Waiheke Island
  Waiheke Island
  Waiheke Island is an island in the Hauraki Gulf of New Zealand, located about from Auckland.The island is the second-largest in the Hauraki Gulf after Great Barrier Island. It is the most populated, with nearly 8,000 permanent residents plus another estimated 3,400 who have second or holiday homes...
  
  
• Walker Island, New Zealand
• Watchman Island
  Watchman Island
  Watchman Island, more commonly known as "Rat Island" is a small sandstone island in the Waitemata Harbour of Auckland, New Zealand. It lies approximately 600 metres north of the Herne Bay suburb....
  
  , Waitemata Harbour
  Waitemata Harbour
  The quite famous Waitemata Harbour is the main access by sea to Auckland, New Zealand. For this reason it is often referred to as Auckland Harbour, despite the fact that it is only one of two harbours surrounding the city, and is crossed by the Auckland Harbour Bridge. The Waitemata forms the north...
  
  
• Whakaari/White Island
  Whakaari/White Island
  Whakaari/White Island is an active andesite stratovolcano, situated from the east coast of the North Island of New Zealand, in the Bay of Plenty. The nearest mainland towns are Whakatane and Tauranga....
  
  
• Whale Island
  Whale Island, New Zealand
  Moutohora Island or Whale Island is a small uninhabited island located off the Bay of Plenty coast of New Zealand's North Island, about north of the town of Whakatane. The island is a remnant of a complex volcano which has eroded, leaving two peaks...
  
  
• Whanganui Island
  Whanganui Island
  Whanganui Island is the largest of a small group of islands at the entrance to Coromandel harbour in the Hauraki Gulf, off the coast of New Zealand's North Island.The island, which is privately owned, is in area...
  
  
• White Island, Otago
  White Island, Otago
  White Island is the name of two islands off the New Zealand coast. The smaller and less well known lies off the coast of Otago, within the boundaries of the city of Dunedin....
  
  
• Wiroa Island, Manukau Harbour
  Manukau Harbour
  Manukau Harbour is the second largest natural harbour in New Zealand by area. It is located to the southwest of the Auckland isthmus, and is an arm of the Tasman Sea.-Geography:...
  
  

In rivers and lakes

• Channel Islands (in Lake Manapouri
  Lake Manapouri
  Lake Manapouri is a lake in the South Island of New Zealand. Its name is Maori for "sorrowful heart", though this name is misapplied due to an early cartographical error...
  
  )
• Dome Islands (in Lake Te Anau
  Lake Te Anau
  Lake Te Anau is in the southwestern corner of the South Island of New Zealand. Its name was originally Te Ana-au, Maori for 'The cave of swirling water'. The lake covers an area of 344 km², making it the second-largest lake by surface area in New Zealand and the largest in the South Island...
  
  )
• Entrance Island (in Lake Te Anau
  Lake Te Anau
  Lake Te Anau is in the southwestern corner of the South Island of New Zealand. Its name was originally Te Ana-au, Maori for 'The cave of swirling water'. The lake covers an area of 344 km², making it the second-largest lake by surface area in New Zealand and the largest in the South Island...
  
  )
• Harwich Island (in Lake Wanaka
  Lake Wanaka
  Lake Wanaka is located in the Otago region of New Zealand, at an altitude of 300 metres. Covering an area of , it is New Zealand's fourth largest lake, and estimated to be more than deep...
  
  )
• Hidden Island (in Lake Wakatipu
  Lake Wakatipu
  Lake Wakatipu is an inland lake in the South Island of New Zealand. It is in the southwest corner of Otago Region, near its boundary with Southland.With a length of , it is New Zealand's longest lake, and, at , its third largest...
  
  )
• Inch Clutha
  Inch Clutha
  Inch Clutha is a large, flat island sitting in the delta between the Matau and Koau branches of the Clutha River, downstream from the town of Balclutha in the South Island of New Zealand...
  
   (in the Clutha River
  Clutha River
  The Clutha River / Mata-Au is the second longest river in New Zealand flowing south-southeast through Central and South Otago from Lake Wanaka in the Southern Alps to the Pacific Ocean, south west of Dunedin. It is the highest volume river in New Zealand, and the swiftest, with a catchment of ,...
  
   delta)
• Mokoia Island
  Mokoia Island
  Mokoia Island is located in Lake Rotorua in New Zealand. It has an area of 1.35 square kilometres. The island is a rhyolite lava dome, rising to 180 metres above the lake surface. It erupted after the Rotorua caldera was formed, tapping a different magma source...
  
   (in Lake Rotorua
  Lake Rotorua
  Lake Rotorua is the second largest lake in the North Island of New Zealand by surface area, and covers 79.8km2. With a mean depth of only 10 metres it is considerably smaller than nearby Lake Tarawera in terms of volume of water. It is located in the Bay of Plenty region...
  
  )
• Motuariki Island (in Lake Tekapo
  Lake Tekapo
  Lake Tekapo is the second-largest of three roughly parallel lakes running north–south along the northern edge of the Mackenzie Basin in the South Island of New Zealand...
  
  )
• Motutaiko Island (in Lake Taupo
  Lake Taupo
  Lake Taupo is a lake situated in the North Island of New Zealand. With a surface area of , it is the largest lake by surface area in New Zealand, and the second largest freshwater lake by surface area in geopolitical Oceania after Lake Murray ....
  
  )
• Moutoa Island
  Moutoa Island
  Moutoa Island is an island of shingle approximately 500 metres long, eighty kilometres up the Whanganui River, New Zealand between the towns of Ranana and Hiruharama....
  
   (in the Whanganui River
  Whanganui River
  The Whanganui River is a major river in the North Island of New Zealand.Known for many years as the Wanganui River, the river's name reverted to Whanganui in 1991, according with the wishes of local iwi. Part of the reason was also to avoid confusion with the Wanganui River in the South Island...
  
  )
• Pigeon Island (in Lake Wakatipu
  Lake Wakatipu
  Lake Wakatipu is an inland lake in the South Island of New Zealand. It is in the southwest corner of Otago Region, near its boundary with Southland.With a length of , it is New Zealand's longest lake, and, at , its third largest...
  
  )
• Pig Island (in Lake Wakatipu
  Lake Wakatipu
  Lake Wakatipu is an inland lake in the South Island of New Zealand. It is in the southwest corner of Otago Region, near its boundary with Southland.With a length of , it is New Zealand's longest lake, and, at , its third largest...
  
  )
• Pomona Island
  Pomona Island
  Pomona Island is the largest island within Lake Manapouri, in Fiordland National Park, in New Zealand's South Island. With an area of , it is one of the largest islands to be found within any New Zealand lake....
  
   (in Lake Manapouri
  Lake Manapouri
  Lake Manapouri is a lake in the South Island of New Zealand. Its name is Maori for "sorrowful heart", though this name is misapplied due to an early cartographical error...
  
  )
• Rakaia Island (in the Rakaia River
  Rakaia River
  The Rakaia River is in the Canterbury Plains in New Zealand's South Island. The Rakaia River is one of the largest braided rivers in New Zealand...
  
   delta)
• Rangitata Island
  Rangitata Island
  Rangitata Island is a long lens-shaped island in the delta of the braided Rangitata River in Canterbury, New Zealand, approximately halfway between Timaru and Ashburton, New Zealand. The island is approximately 17 kilometres in length, and is about five kilometres wide at its widest point...
  
   (in the Rangitata River
  Rangitata River
  The Rangitata River is one of the braided rivers that helped form the Canterbury Plains in southern New Zealand. It flows southeast for 120 kilometres from the Southern Alps, entering the Pacific Ocean 30 kilometres northeast of Timaru...
  
   delta)
• Rona Island (in Lake Manapouri
  Lake Manapouri
  Lake Manapouri is a lake in the South Island of New Zealand. Its name is Maori for "sorrowful heart", though this name is misapplied due to an early cartographical error...
  
  )
• Tree Island (in Lake Wakatipu
  Lake Wakatipu
  Lake Wakatipu is an inland lake in the South Island of New Zealand. It is in the southwest corner of Otago Region, near its boundary with Southland.With a length of , it is New Zealand's longest lake, and, at , its third largest...
  
  )

Outlying

New Zealand also administers the following islands outside the main archipelago. Only the Chatham Islands have a permanent population although others also did in the past. Others host visitors for science, conservation, meteorological observation and tourism.

• Chatham Islands
  Chatham Islands
  The Chatham Islands are an archipelago and New Zealand territory in the Pacific Ocean consisting of about ten islands within a radius, the largest of which are Chatham Island and Pitt Island. Their name in the indigenous language, Moriori, means Misty Sun...
  
  
  • Chatham Island/Rekohu
    Chatham Island/Rekohu
    Chatham Island is by far the largest island of the Chatham Islands group, in the south Pacific Ocean off the eastern coast of New Zealand, — not exactly "halfway between the equator and the pole, and right on the International Date Line" but close enough for tourism marketing purposes...
    
    
  • Forty-Fours/Motuhara
    Forty-Fours/Motuhara
    Forty-Fours/Motuhara is part of the Chatham Islands group, located east of New Zealand's South Island. The islands lie east of the group's main island, Chatham Island. Area Type:* Hypsographic...
    
    
  • Little Mangere Island
    Little Mangere Island
    Little Mangere Island or Tapuaenuku is part of the Chatham Islands chain, located east of New Zealand's South Island. The island lies off the west coast of Pitt Island, south-east of the chain's main settlement, Waitangi, on Chatham Island...
    
    
  • Mangere Island
    Mangere Island
    Mangere Island is part of the Chatham Islands archipelago, located east of New Zealand's South Island and has an area of . The island lies off the west coast of Pitt Island, south-east of the main settlement in the Chathams, Waitangi, on Chatham Island....
    
    
  • Pitt Island/Rangiauria
    Pitt Island/Rangiauria
    Pitt Island or Rangiauria is the second largest island in the Chatham Islands, originally known as Rekohu.There is a School, a wharf, a church and a landing strip for light planes on Pitt Island. Air Chathams provide the light plane service between the islands. As there is no shop on the island, a...
    
    
  • The Sisters/Rangitatahi
    The Sisters/Rangitatahi
    The Sisters/Rangitatahi is part of the Chatham Islands chain, located east of New Zealand's South Island. The northernmost part of the group, they lie north of Cape Pattison on Chatham Island....
    
    
  • South East Island/Rangatira
    South East Island/Rangatira
    South East Island/Rangatira is the third largest island in the Chatham Islands chain, and covers an area of . It is located east of New Zealand's South Island...
    
    
  • Star Keys/Motuhope
    Star Keys/Motuhope
    Star Keys/Motuhope is part of the Chatham Islands chain, located east of New Zealand's South Island. It is a group of five rocky islets — located east of Pitt Island....
    
    
• Kermadec Islands
  Kermadec Islands
  The Kermadec Islands are a subtropical island arc in the South Pacific Ocean northeast of New Zealand's North Island, and a similar distance southwest of Tonga...
  
  
  • Cheeseman Island
    Cheeseman Island
    Cheeseman Island is a rocky volcanic island in the southwest Pacific Ocean . It is named after T. F. Cheeseman of the Auckland Museum - who was on board the NZ Government steamer 'Stella' when it visited the island in 1887. It neighbours Curtis Island to the east and lies about south of Macauley...
    
    
  • Curtis Island
  • Macauley Island
    Macauley Island
    Macauley Island is a volcanic island in New Zealand's Kermadec Islands, approximately halfway between New Zealand's North Island and Tonga in the southwest Pacific Ocean....
    
    
  • Raoul Island
    Raoul Island
    Anvil-shaped Raoul Island , the largest and northernmost of the main Kermadec Islands, , has been the source of vigorous volcanic activity during the past several thousand years that was dominated by dacitic explosive eruptions.The area of the island, including fringing islets and rocks...
    
    
• Solander Islands
  Solander Islands
  The Solander Islands are a small chain of uninhabited volcanic islets lying at , close to the western end of the Foveaux Strait in southern New Zealand...
  
  
• Three Kings Islands
  Three Kings Islands
  The Three Kings Islands or Manawa Islands are a group of 13 islands about northwest of Cape Reinga, the northernmost point of the North Island of New Zealand, where the South Pacific Ocean and Tasman Sea converge. They measure about 4.86 km² in area...
  
  

The 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....

 are considered World Heritage Sites.

• Antipodes Islands
  Antipodes Islands
  The Antipodes Islands are inhospitable volcanic islands to the south of—and territorially part of—New Zealand...
  
  
• Auckland Islands
  Auckland Islands
  The Auckland Islands are an archipelago of the New Zealand Sub-Antarctic Islands and include Auckland Island, Adams Island, Enderby Island, Disappointment Island, Ewing Island, Rose Island, Dundas Island and Green Island, with a combined area of...
  
  
  • Adams Island
    Adams Island, New Zealand
    Adams Island is part of Auckland Islands archipelago. The southern end of Auckland Island broadens to a width of where a narrow channel, known as Carnley Harbour or the Adams Straits, separates it from the roughly triangular Adams Island , which is even more mountainous, reaching a height of at...
    
    
  • Auckland Island
    Auckland Island
    Auckland Island is the main island of the Auckland Islands, an uninhabited archipelago in the south Pacific Ocean belonging to New Zealand. It is inscribed in the together with the other subantarctic New Zealand islands in the region as follows: 877-004 Auckland Isls, New Zealand S50.29 E165.52...
    
    
  • Enderby Island
    Enderby Island, New Zealand
    -External links:***...
    
    
  • Rose Island
    Rose Island, New Zealand
    Rose Island is an uninhabited island, part of the Auckland Islands group, a subantarctic chain that forms part of the New Zealand Outlying Islands....
    
    
• Bounty Islands
  Bounty Islands
  The Bounty Islands at are a small group of 13 granite islets and numerous rocks, with a combined area of , in the south Pacific Ocean that are territorially part of New Zealand. They are located between 47°44'35" and 47°46'10" S, and 179°01' and 179°04'20" E, southeast of the South Island of New...
  
  
• Campbell Island group
  Campbell Island group
  The Campbell Island group is a group of subantarctic islands, belonging to New Zealand. The group has a total area of , consisting of one big island, Campbell Island , and several small islets, notably Dent Island , Isle de Jeanette Marie , Jacquemart Island , and Monowai Island 1...
  
  
  • Campbell Island
    Campbell Island, New Zealand
    Campbell Island is a remote, subantarctic island of New Zealand and the main island of the Campbell Island group. It covers of the group's , and is surrounded by numerous stacks, rocks and islets like Dent Island, Folly Island , Isle de Jeanette Marie, and Jacquemart Island, the latter being the...
    
    
  • Dent Island
    Dent Island, New Zealand
    Dent Island is a subantarctic rock stack, lying 3 km west of Campbell Island and belonging to the Campbell Island group. Dent Island is located at ....
    
    
  • Folly Island
    Folly Island, New Zealand
    Folly Island or the Folly Islands is a subantarctic island located in New Zealand's Campbell Island group.In a survey of the island in 1976, it was found to have rats and "possibly the only pristine stand of...
    
     (or Folly Islands)
  • Jacquemart Island
    Jacquemart Island
    Jacquemart Island, one of the islets surrounding Campbell Island in New Zealand, lies south of Campbell Island and is the southernmost island of New Zealand....
    
    
• The Snares
  The Snares
  Snares Islands/Tini Heke is a small island group situated approximately 200 kilometres south of New Zealand's South Island and to the south-south-west of Stewart Island/Rakiura. The Snares consist of the main island North East Island and the smaller Broughton Island as well as the somewhat...
  
  

Realm of New Zealand

The following islands are part of the Realm of New Zealand

Realm of New Zealand

The Realm of New Zealand is the entire area in which the Queen in right of New Zealand is head of state. The Realm comprises New Zealand, the Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau and the Ross Dependency in Antarctica, and is defined by a 1983 Letters Patent constituting the office of Governor-General of New...

, but are not part of New Zealand proper:

• Cook Islands
  Cook Islands
  The Cook Islands is a self-governing parliamentary democracy in the South Pacific Ocean in free association with New Zealand...
  
  
  • Aitutaki
    Aitutaki
    Aitutaki, also traditionally known as Araura, Ararau and Utataki, is one of the Cook Islands, north of Rarotonga. It has a population of approximately 2,000. Aitutaki is the second most visited island of the Cook Islands. The capital is Arutanga on the west side.-Geography:Aitutaki is an "almost...
    
    
  • Atiu
    Atiu
    Atiu, also known as Enuamanu , is an island lying at 187 km to the northeast of Rarotonga, in the Southern Islands group of the Cook Islands Archipelago.-Geography:...
    
    
  • Mangaia
    Mangaia
    Mangaia is the most southerly of the Cook Islands and the second largest, after Rarotonga.-Geography:...
    
    
  • Manihiki
    Manihiki
    Manihiki is an island in the Cook Islands known as the Island of Pearls. It is a triangular atoll north of Rarotonga.- History :Polynesians are believed to have lived on Manihiki since at least 900 or 1000 AD. Kupe was the first to explore Aotea Roa. Kupe came from Manihiki, also known as...
    
    
  • Manuae
  • Mauke
    Mauke
    Mauke is a raised atoll island, the eastern most of the Cook Islands.-Geography:...
    
    
  • Mitiaro
    Mitiaro
    Mitiaro, the fourth island in the Cook Islands group, is of volcanic origin. Standing in water 14,750 feet deep it is four miles across at its widest point.-Geography:...
    
    
  • Nassau
    Nassau (Cook Islands)
    Nassau is an island in the Cook Islands.Located 90 km south of Pukapuka, the small island of Nassau is just 9 metres above sea level, with an oval sandy cay on a coral reef foundation and is surrounded by a narrow reef flat. It is covered with palms, and is the only island of the Northern...
    
    
  • Palmerston Island
    Palmerston Island
    Palmerston Island is a coral atoll in the Cook Islands in the Pacific Ocean about 500 km northwest of Rarotonga. It was discovered by James Cook on 16 June 1774.-Overview:...
    
    
  • Penrhyn Island/Tongareva
    Penrhyn Island
    Penrhyn is the most remote and largest atoll of the 15 Cook Islands in the south Pacific Ocean.-Geography:...
    
    
  • Pukapuka
    Pukapuka
    Pukapuka is a coral atoll in the Cook Islands in the Pacific Ocean, with three small islets threaded on a reef that encloses a beautifully clear lagoon. It is the most remote island of the Cook Islands, situated about 1140 kilometres northwest of Rarotonga. It is a triangular atoll with three...
    
    
  • Rakahanga
    Rakahanga
    Rakahanga, part of the Cook Islands in the central-southern Pacific Ocean, is one of the most unspoiled places on earth. The atoll is 1,248 kilometres from the Cook Islands capital, Rarotonga and lies 1,111 kilometres from the equator...
    
    
  • Rarotonga
    Rarotonga
    Rarotonga is the most populous island of the Cook Islands, with a population of 14,153 , out of the country's total population of 19,569.The Cook Islands' Parliament buildings and international airport are on Rarotonga...
    
    
  • Suwarrow
    Suwarrow
    Suwarrow is a low coral atoll in the Cook Islands in the Pacific Ocean. It is about 1,300 km south of the equator and 930 km NNW of Rarotonga, from which it is administered....
    
    
  • Takutea
    Takutea
    Takutea, in the Cook Islands, is a small uninhabited island 21 km northwest of Atiu in the southern Cook Islands. Because it is only 1.22 km² in size and has a very dangerous landing at the northwest corner of the reef, it has been designated a wildlife sanctuary, mainly for the red-tailed tropic...
    
    
• Niue
  Niue
  Niue , is an island country in the South Pacific Ocean. It is commonly known as the "Rock of Polynesia", and inhabitants of the island call it "the Rock" for short. Niue is northeast of New Zealand in a triangle between Tonga to the southwest, the Samoas to the northwest, and the Cook Islands to...
  
  
• Tokelau
  Tokelau
  Tokelau is a territory of New Zealand in the South Pacific Ocean that consists of three tropical coral atolls with a combined land area of 10 km2 and a population of approximately 1,400...
  
  
  • Atafu
    Atafu
    Atafu, formerly known as the Duke of York Group is a group of 42 coral islets within Tokelau in the south Pacific Ocean, 500 km north of Samoa. Covering 2.5 km², it is the smallest of the three islands that constitute Tokelau, and is composed of an atoll surrounding a central lagoon,...
    
    
  • Nukunonu
    Nukunonu
    Nukunonu is a group of coral islets within Tokelau in the south Pacific Ocean. Covering 5.5 km², it is the largest of the three islands that constitute Tokelau, and is composed of an atoll surrounding a central lagoon, which itself covers some 90 km²...
    
    
  • Fakaofo
    Fakaofo
    Fakaofo, formerly known as Bowditch Island, is a South Pacific Ocean atoll located at 171° 15' West, 9° 25' South in the Tokelau Group. The actual land area is only about 3 km², consisting of islets on a coral reef surrounding a central lagoon of some 45 km²...
    
    

Territorial claims

New Zealand also claims the Ross Dependency

Ross Dependency

The Ross Dependency is a region of Antarctica defined by a sector originating at the South Pole, passing along longitudes 160° east to 150° west, and terminating at latitude 60° south...

 in Antarctica, including:

• the Balleny Islands
  Balleny Islands
  The Balleny Islands are a series of uninhabited islands in the Southern Ocean extending from 66°15' to 67°35'S and 162°30' to 165°00'E. The group extends for about in a northwest-southeast direction. The islands are heavily glaciated and are of volcanic origin. Glaciers project from their slopes...
  
  
  • Buckle Island
    Buckle Island
    Buckle Island is one of the three main islands in the uninhabited Balleny Islands group located in the Southern Ocean. It lies northwest of Sturge Island and southeast of Young Island, some north-northeast of Belousov Point on the Antarctic mainland....
    
    
  • Sabrina Island
    Sabrina Island
    Sabrina Island is the largest of three small islets lying southward of Buckle Island in the Balleny Islands. Sabrina Island was named after the cutter Balleny's schooner, the Eliza Scott, when the Balleny Islands were discovered in 1839.- See also :...
    
    
  • Sturge Island
    Sturge Island
    Sturge Island is one of the three main islands in the uninhabited Balleny Islands group located in the Southern Ocean. It lies southeast of Buckle Island and northeast of Belousov Point on the Antarctic mainland...
    
    
  • Young Island
    Young Island
    Young Island is the northernmost and westernmost of the three main islands in the uninhabited Balleny Islands group located in the Southern Ocean...
    
    
• Scott Island
  Scott Island
  Scott Island is a small uninhabited island of volcanic origin in the Ross Sea, Southern Ocean, northeast of Cape Adare, the northeastern extremity of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It is long north-south, and between and wide, reaching a height of and covering an area of...
  
  
• Roosevelt Island
  Roosevelt Island, Antarctica
  Roosevelt Island is an ice-covered island, about long in a NW-SE direction, wide and about in area, lying in the eastern part of the Ross Ice Shelf of Antarctica...
  
  
• Coulman Island
  Coulman Island
  Coulman Island is an ice-covered island, composed of several connected shield volcanos in the Ross Sea off Antarctica. The Coulman caldera, wide and deep, can be found on the south end of the island. Emperor penguins inhabit this island. Coulman Island lies within the boundaries of Ross...
  
  
• the Ross Archipelago
  Ross Archipelago
  Ross Archipelago is a convenient name for that group of islands which, together with the ice shelf between them, forms the eastern and southern boundaries of McMurdo Sound. The most northerly is Beaufort Island, then comes Ross Island, the Dellbridge Islands, and Black Island and White Island...
  
  
  • Ross Island
    Ross Island
    Ross Island is an island formed by four volcanoes in the Ross Sea near the continent of Antarctica, off the coast of Victoria Land in McMurdo Sound.-Geography:...
    
    
  • Beaufort Island
    Beaufort Island
    Beaufort Island is an island in Antarctica's Ross Sea. It is the northernmost feature of the Ross Archipelago, lying north of Cape Bird, Ross Island. It is approximately in area. It was first charted by James Clark Ross in 1841...
    
    
  • White Island
    White Island (Ross Archipelago)
    White Island is an island in the Ross Archipelago, long, protruding through the Ross Ice Shelf immediately east of Black Island. It was discovered by the Discovery Expedition and so named by them because of the mantle of snow which covers it....
    
    
  • Black Island
    Black Island (Ross Archipelago)
    Black Island , in the Ross Archipelago, is immediately west of White Island. It was first named by the Discovery Expedition because of its lack of snow. The island's northernmost point is named Cape Hodgson, commemorating Thomas Vere Hodgson .The highest point is Mt. Aurora, a prinicple...
    
    
  • the Dellbridge Islands
    Dellbridge Islands
    The Dellbridge Islands are a group of four islands lying in the Antarctic, just south of Cape Evans and Ross Island at .They are individually called Inaccessible Island, Tent Island, Big Razorback Island, and Little Razorback Island...
    
    
    • Inaccessible Island
      Inaccessible Island (Dellbridge Islands)
      Inaccessible Island is a small rocky island, the northernmost of the Dellbridge Islands, lying 1 mile southwest of Cape Evans, Ross Island. Inaccessible Island is located at . Inaccessible Island is the most imposing of the group as it is nearly always bare of snow and rises to...
      
      
    • Tent Island
      Tent Island
      Tent Island is one of the Dellbridge Islands in McMurdo Sound, Antarctica.- See also :* Composite Antarctic Gazetteer* List of Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands* List of Antarctic islands south of 60° S* SCAR* Territorial claims in Antarctica...
      
      
    • Big Razorback
    • Little Razorback

See also

• New Zealand outlying islands
  New Zealand Outlying Islands
  The New Zealand outlying islands comprise nine island groups, located in the subtropics and subantarctic, which are part of New Zealand but lie outside of the New Zealand continental shelf. Although considered as integral parts of New Zealand, seven of the nine island groups are not part of any...
  
  
• 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....
  
  
• Islands of the world
• Extreme points of New Zealand
  Extreme points of New Zealand
  This article discusses the extreme points of New Zealand: the points that lie farther north, south, east or west than any other equivalent location in the country....