page_title: Cape Expedition
hierarchical_section_title: Cape Expedition
caption_attribution_description: A map showing some of the outlying islands of New Zealand, including the Chatham Islands, Bounty Islands, Snares Islands, Antipodes Islands, Auckland Islands, and Campbell Islands, as well as Australia's Macquarie Island. Generated using GMT.
context_page_description: The Cape Expedition was the deliberately misleading name given to a secret five-year wartime program of establishing coastwatching stations on New Zealand’s more distant uninhabited subantarctic islands. The decision to do so was made by the New Zealand Government's War Cabinet in December 1940, with the program terminating at the end of the Pacific War in 1945.
context_section_description: The Cape Expedition was the deliberately misleading name given to a secret five-year wartime program of establishing coastwatching stations on New Zealand’s more distant uninhabited subantarctic islands.  The decision to do so was made by the New Zealand Government's War Cabinet in December 1940, with the program terminating at the end of the Pacific War in 1945.
caption: Map of New Zealand's subantarctic outlying islands
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