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Chatham Islands

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Chatham Islands
An island group of New Zealand in the southwest Pacific Ocean east of South Island. The islands were discovered in 1791.
Chatham Islands
pl n
(Placename) a group of islands in the S Pacific Ocean, forming a county of South Island, New Zealand: consists of the main islands of Chatham, Pitt, and several rocky islets. Chief settlement: Waitangi. Pop.: 769 (1991). Area: 963 sq. km (372 sq. miles)
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Growing on the Chatham Islands, this species, Pseudopanax chathamicus, never had moa to menace its foliage and doesn't show the same defenses, the researchers report.
Tree keeps vigil for extinct moa; leaves may have defended against ... by Milius, Susan / Science News
To prove that these defences were linked to the presence of moa, the team compared Araliaceae leaves to samples from a similar species of tree, P chathamicus, from the Chatham Islands, which are 800 kilometres east of New Zealand.
Trees in New Zealand evolved camouflage defense against long extinct ... by Asian News International
For, in ways that become clear in the unfolding pictures and narrative, the Chatham Islands are and are not part of New Zealand.
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