The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 67
Position of the Kermadec Group
Position of the Kermadec Group.
Lat. S. | Long. W. | |||||
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° | ′ | ″ | ° | ′ | ″ | |
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.