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Seals and penguins, Bounty Islands

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Seals and penguins, Bounty Islands

Fur seals and erect-crested penguins cluster on one of the Bounty Islands. The surface of the islands is rugged granite rock with almost no plant growth.

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Jock Phillips, Subantarctic islands – Land and plants, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/38500/seals-and-penguins-bounty-islands (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Jock Phillips, published 28 November 2012.