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The Chatham Islands had a resident population of 720 in June 2024. [3] Waitangi is the main port and settlement. The local economy depends largely on conservation, tourism, farming, and fishing. The Chatham Islands Council provides local administration – its powers resemble those of New Zealand's unitary authorities.
Chatham Island hosts the only known breeding population of the endemic and critically endangered magenta petrel or tāiko (Pterodroma magentae). The seabird was thought to be extinct until 1978, and had a population of under 200 in 2017.
This is a list of islands in the world ordered by population, which includes all islands with more than 100,000 people. For comparison, continental landmasses are also shown, in italics. The population of the world's islands is over 730 million, approximately 9% of the world's total population.
European men intermarried with Moriori. Māori arrivals created their own village at Wharekauri which became the Māori name for the Chatham Islands. [37] The local population was estimated at 1,600 in the mid-1830s with about 10% and 20% of the population having died from infectious diseases such as influenza.
Chatham Islands: Population • Total. 58: Time zone: Chatham Standard Time Zone: Te One is a settlement on the Chatham Islands. It is located in Petre Bay, on the ...
Unnamed point on Chatham Island 299 m (981 ft) Largest outlying island group, and the only one with a permanent population (720 as of June 2024 [9]). Kermadec Islands [10] (Rangitāhua) South Pacific Ocean, roughly 800–1,000 kilometres (500–620 mi) north of New Zealand's North Island
A group of Māori migrated to Rēkohu, now known as the Chatham Islands, where they developed their distinct Moriori culture. [79] [80] The Moriori population was decimated, first, by disease brought by European sealers and whalers and, second, by Taranaki Māori, with only 101 surviving in 1862 and the last known full-blooded Moriori dying in ...
The Chatham Islands was incorporated into the Colony of New Zealand by the British in 1842. The first local government set up on the islands was the Chatham Islands Māori Council in 1900. [4] Chatham Islands County was established in 1901, [5] [6] though the Chatham Islands County Council was not established until 1926. [7] [8]