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A 1966 research paper described the islands (and their flora and fauna) in detail. At this time the western and eastern main islands were named "Rat Islet" and "Kowhai Islet", respectively. The paper noted that they are separated only by a "boulder beach", and described the "Anapuhipuhi
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A subsequent research paper in 1968 described a geological survey of the islands, noting that the islands consist mostly of
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Bowen, F.E. (1968). "Notes from the New Zealand Geological Survey—5: Simmonds Island, Henderson Bay, Northland (N4)".
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which, until discovered breeding here in 1990, was thought to breed only on the
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Notornis: Quarterly Journal of the Ornithological Society of New Zealand
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A view of Simmonds Islands from nearby Henderson Bay
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Simmonds Islands is located in New Zealand
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Far North District
Northland Region
New Zealand
Henderson Bay
sea stacks

Department of Conservation
Buller's shearwater
Poor Knights Islands
shore skinks
Blowhole
argillite
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List of islands of New Zealand
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Desert island
"Northland offshore islands"
"Birds of Simmonds Islands"
doi
10.1080/00288306.1968.10420251
Topographical map showing the Simmonds Islands
A 1975 botanical survey of the Simmonds Islands
34°45′20″S 173°09′22″E / 34.75563°S 173.15620°E / -34.75563; 173.15620
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Islands of the Northland Region
Far North District

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