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Curtis Island, New Zealand
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Curtis Island, New Zealand : ウィキペディア英語版
Curtis Island, New Zealand

Curtis Island is an island in the southwest Pacific (located at ). It is a volcanic island with an elevation of and an area of . Together with neighboring Cheeseman Island it belongs to the Kermadec Islands. Politically it is part of New Zealand. The Kermadec Islands lie halfway between North Island, New Zealand and Tonga at approximately the latitude of the Gold Coast, Queensland.
==History==
Lieutenant John Watts, RN was the first European to visit the Macauley and Curtis Islands — which he named after patrons George Mackenzie Macaulay and William Curtis — on the ''Lady Penrhyn'' in late 1788.〔
〕 ''Lady Penryn'' had delivered convicts to New South Wales as part of the First Fleet and was proceeding to Macao.
Count von Luckner, Commander of the German raider ''Seeadler'' during the First World War, stopped off at Curtis Island to replenish his stores from the castaway depot left there by the New Zealand Marine Department (for the use of shipwrecked crews) while attempting to make good his escape from New Zealand to South America.

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