In 1893, the British ship Spirit of the Dawn famously sank close to the shores of the Antipodes Islands and the castaway crew were forced to exist here for months, living off the land until the remaining survivors were eventually rescued. Today the island has no human inhabitants and is populated instead with seabirds, penguins and several species of seal.

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