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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 67

Position of the Kermadec Group

Position of the Kermadec Group.

The Kermadec group of islands is situated between the parallels of 29° 10′ and 31° 30′ of south latitude, and between the meridians of 177° 45′ and 179° of longitude west from Greenwich. The islands are four in number, with some outlying islets, as follows,—the positions being derived from the Admiralty Sailing Directions for the Pacific, Vol. II., 1885:—
Lat. S. Long. W.
° °
Raoul or Sunday Island (Captain Denham's Flagstaff, Denham Bay) 29 15 30 177 54 50
Macauley 30 15 0 178 32 0
Curtis 30 35 0 178 36 0
L'Esperance, or Blind, or French Rock 31 36 0 178 55 0

The islands lie very nearly in a direct line drawn from Sunday Island to L'Espérance on a bearing of about S.S.W. true; Macauley being distant from Sunday Island 68 sea-miles, Curtis 22 sea-miles from Macauley, and L'Espérance 52 sea-miles from Curtis. The extremes of the group are thus about 142 sea-miles apart.

The principal island—Sunday—is distant from Auckland just 600 sea-miles, and lies a little more than half-way to Tonga, but 100 miles to the eastward of the direct steam route to that place. It is 300 miles eastward of the steam route to Fiji, and 150 miles westward of the steam route from Auckland to Rarotonga. It is also almost exactly the same distance from Auckland to the north-east as Norfolk Island is to the north-west—i.e., 600 sea-miles.