Kōrero: Albatrosses

Pyramid Rock

Pyramid Rock

Pyramid Rock is a basalt outcrop south of Pitt Island in the Chathams group. Its many small ledges are ideal nesting places for about 4,500 Chatham albatrosses, which breed nowhere else. The birds are close to a productive marine region along the Chatham Rise.

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Photograph by Paul Scofield

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Te tuhi tohutoro mō tēnei whārangi:

Paul Sagar, 'Albatrosses - New Zealand’s smaller albatrosses', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/mi/photograph/7067/pyramid-rock (accessed 24 April 2024)

He kōrero nā Paul Sagar, i tāngia i te 12 Jun 2006, reviewed & revised 17 Feb 2015