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Kermadec Islands Marine Photos

The Kermadec Islands are the meeting place of marine species from tropical and temperate waters. The marine area includes the second deepest marine trench in the world, and a line of active subterranean volcanoes.

Galapagos Shark. Photo Malcolm Francis NIWA

Spotted Black Grouper. Photo Malcolm Francis NIWA

Small Chimneys. Photo Malcolm Clark NIWA

Hawksbill Turtle. Photo Malcolm Francis NIWA

Soft Coral. Photo Malcolm Francis NIWA

Spotted Black Grouper. Photo Malcolm Francis NIWA

Stone Crab. Photo Malcolm Clark NIWA

Humpback whale. Photo Malcolm Francis

Crinoids. Photo Malcolm Clark NIWA

Kingfish. Malcolm Francis NIWA

Kermadec deep water species. Photo Malcolm Clark NIWA

Black smoker vent. Photo Cornel de Ronde GNS Science

Kermadec Petrel. Photo Brook Whylie

Black smoker vent. Photo Malcolm Clarke NIWA

Kermadec Trench. Tim Shank, Jack Cook, and E. Paul Oberlander © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Corals. Photo Malcolm Clark NIWA

L'Esperance Rock Kermadecs. Photo A. Ballance

Urchin. Photo Malcolm Clark NIWA

Map of Kermadec Marine Sanctuary and other marine protected areas in the Pacific. Ministry for the Environment

Diver and blue maomao at Kermadecs. Photo Malcolm Francis NIWA

Anemone. Photo Malcolm Clark NIWA

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