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of the islands. Each station made radio contact daily with New
Zealand, at staggered times to minimise the risk of their presence becoming known. The men were relieved yearly, though a few repeated their tours of duty; two of them spent three years on the islands, with the naturalist J.H. Sorensen
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Although no enemy ships were sighted during the duration of the program, the secondary work carried out by the coastwatchers proved successful. From June 1942 the stations began reporting weather conditions daily; the reports were so valuable that in the third year of the program trained
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on 15 October 1945 and withdrawn, the
Campbell Island station was retained as part of New Zealand's weather forecasting service. Many of the scientific results garnered through the work of the Cape Expedition's coastwatchers were later published by the New Zealand
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also became part of the program, during the fourth and fifth years of which a special party of three completed the survey of the island groups. When the coastwatchers were
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Three stations were established, at Ranui Cove in Port Ross at the northern end, and at
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with a crew of four, was based at
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and headed for South
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before proceeding to
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in December 1940, with the program terminating at the end of the
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was the deliberately misleading name given to a secret five-year
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of wildlife on the islands. On Auckland Island there were
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Botany of Lord Auckland's Group and Campbell's Island
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Military history of New Zealand during World War II
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1874 Transit of Venus Expedition to Campbell Island
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43:Map of New Zealand's subantarctic outlying islands
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572:Moutere Ihupuku / Campbell Island Marine Reserve
344:had been involved in organising the expedition.
340:of bulletins. Ornithologist and museum director
334:Department of Scientific and Industrial Research
118:islands. The decision to do so was made by the
191:The Cape Expedition program was managed by the
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730:History of the New Zealand outlying islands
709:Sub-Antarctic Islands Scientific Expedition
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139:Axis naval activity in New Zealand waters
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65:Coastwatching and scientific work
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195:Aerodrome Services Branch. The
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392:Bailey & Sorensen (1962).
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82:Public Works Department
614:Campbell Island cattle
338:Cape Expedition Series
302:provided high quality
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418:Hall, D.O.W. (1950).
661:Parakatianna salmoni
596:Acanthomurus rivalis
589:Abrotanella rosulata
551:Perseverance Harbour
234:from December 1942.
220:Perseverance Harbour
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329:demobilised
325:naturalists
300:feral sheep
292:wild cattle
127:Pacific War
123:War Cabinet
112:New Zealand
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348:References
204:Wellington
184:to German
165:forest at
137:See also:
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518:Mountains
321:Surveyors
284:wild pigs
208:Port Ross
181:Rangitane
129:in 1945.
73:1941–1945
62:Objective
286:and, on
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249:with an
228:privates
214:Stations
175:Holmwood
151:Erlangen
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29:Part of
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400:Sources
336:in its
310:Results
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243:plywood
230:in the
186:raiders
155:Dunedin
133:History
104:wartime
88:Outcome
247:dinghy
145:German
353:Notes
255:Ranui
200:Tagua
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294:and
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