Campbell Island, New Zealand
Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku is an uninhabited subantarctic island of New Zealand, and the main island of the Campbell Island group. It covers 112.68 square kilometres (43.51 sq mi) of the group's 113.31 km2 (43.75 sq mi), and is surrounded by numerous stacks, rocks and islets like Dent Island, Folly Island, Isle de Jeanette-Marie, and Jacquemart Island, the latter being the southernmost extremity of New Zealand. The island is mountainous, rising to over 500 metres (1,640 ft) in the south. A long fiord, Perseverance Harbour, nearly bisects it, opening out to sea on the east coast.
Six Foot Lake, on Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku
Meteorological station at Beeman Cove (unmanned/automatic since 1995)
Campbell Island / Motu Ihupuku as viewed from the International Space Station
Chart of South Harbour, Campbell Island, 1840, by J.E. Davis, master
Seal hunting, or sealing, is the personal or commercial hunting of seals. Seal hunting is currently practiced in nine countries: United States, Canada, Namibia, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Finland and Sweden. Most of the world's seal hunting takes place in Canada and Greenland.
Killing fur seals on St. Paul Island, Alaska Territory, 1890s
Seal skinning in the 1880s by members of the Nansen expedition to Greenland
Inuit seal hunting
Seal hunting in Reimerswaal