"very sought after by collectors of the postal orders of the Commonwealth of Nations. Like New Zealand, British postal orders were issued at the post office at Waitangi. It is also not yet known when British postal orders were introduced into the Chatham Islands, but the last possible date can be narrowed down to the nearest month - March 1985. The issue of British postal orders ceased due to the scrapping of foreign exchange controls by the New Zealand Finance Minister, Roger Douglas. Postal orders of the Chatham Islands Although the Chatham Islands are constitutionally part of New Zealand, the"
"Chatham Islands (British Columbia) The Chatham Islands are a group of islands off the east coast of Oak Bay, British Columbia, Canada. All of the islands above the high tide mark (except the Alpha Islets ecological reserve) are in Chatham Islands Indian Reserve No. 4, under the control of the Songhees First Nation. Chatham Islands foreshore - defined as the land between low tide and the beginning of land based vegetation - is provincial Crown Land. The Chatham Islands were named in 1846 by surveyors in honour of HMS ""Chatham"", the escort ship of HMS ""Discovery"", the ship of 18th-century"
"Chatham Island (Andaman and Nicobar Islands) Chatham Island is an island of the Andaman Islands. It belongs to the South Andaman administrative district, part of the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. the island is lying north of downtown Port Blair. This is the island where the earliest British settlement in the Andamans began. In 1883, the British established the Chatham Saw Mill. In 1990, the Indians built the Forest Museum, where you get insight on the forest team activities, and has displays on the history of timber milling on the island. The island belongs to the Port"
"landed on 29 November 1791, claimed possession for Great Britain and named the islands after the First Lord of the Admiralty, John Pitt, 2nd Earl of Chatham. A relative of his, Thomas Pitt, was a member of the Vancouver Expedition. Sealers and whalers soon started hunting in the surrounding ocean with the islands as their base. It is estimated that 10 to 20 percent of the indigenous Moriori soon died from diseases introduced by foreigners. The sealing and whaling industries ceased activities about 1861, while fishing remained as a major economic activity. Chatham Islands date their anniversary on 29 November,"
"their own name. Tokelau remains an autonomous dependency of New Zealand. The Chatham Islands—despite having the designation of ""Territory""—is an integral part of the country, situated within the New Zealand archipelago. The territory's council is not autonomous and has broadly the same powers as other local councils, although notably it can also charge levies on goods entering or leaving the islands. Aruba, Curaçao, and Sint Maarten are autonomous countries within the Kingdom of the Netherlands, each with their own parliament. In addition they enjoy autonomy in taxation matters as well as having their own currencies. The French constitution recognises three"
"Blair Islands and lies in the middle of Port Meadows. Politically, Chatham Island, along neighboring Port Blair Islands, are part of Port Blair Taluk. Chatham Island (Andaman and Nicobar Islands) Chatham Island is an island of the Andaman Islands. It belongs to the South Andaman administrative district, part of the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. the island is lying north of downtown Port Blair. This is the island where the earliest British settlement in the Andamans began. In 1883, the British established the Chatham Saw Mill. In 1990, the Indians built the Forest Museum, where you get"
"Chathams are part of New Zealand so there are no border controls or formalities on arrival, but visitors are advised to have prearranged their accommodation on the islands. Transport operators may refuse to carry passengers without accommodation bookings. There is no scheduled public transport but accommodation providers are normally able to arrange transport. Tasman Empire Airways Ltd (TEAL) initially serviced the Chathams by air using flying boats. With the withdrawal of TEAL, the RNZAF maintained an infrequent service with Short Sunderland flying boats. NZ4111 was damaged on takeoff from Te Whanga Lagoon on 4 November 1959 and remains as a"
"and in the final chapter of ""Cloud Atlas"", the 2004 novel by David Mitchell. The novel was adapted for screen. Chatham Island Chatham Island is by far the largest island of the Chatham Islands group, in the south Pacific Ocean off the eastern coast of New Zealand's South Island. It is said to be ""halfway between the equator and the pole, and right on the International Date Line"", though the point (180°, 45°S) in fact lies ca. 173 miles WSW of the island's westernmost point. The island is called ""Rekohu"" (""misty skies"") in Moriori, and ""Wharekauri"" in Māori. The island"
"sell the Chatham Islands to the German Colonisation Company—yet to be formed—for ₤10,000 was quashed by the British Government, which declared that the islands were to be part of the colony of New Zealand and that any Germans settling there would be treated as aliens. The party of German migrants on the ""St Pauli"", with 140 passengers including John Beit, the ""overbearing and arrogant, greedy, untruthful"" New Zealand Company agent in Hamburg, went to Nelson instead. The New Zealand Company had begun its colonisation scheme without the approval of the British government; as late as May 1839 Parliamentary Under-secretary Henry"
"those sixty five or over. Chatham, New Hampshire Chatham is a town in Carroll County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 337 at the 2010 census. It is located in the White Mountains, and except for the southeast corner, all of Chatham is in the White Mountain National Forest. The town is home to the Cold River national forest campgrounds. Chatham was granted to Peter Livins and others, 7 February 1767, by colonial Governor Benning Wentworth. The town was named in honor of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham and Prime Minister of Great Britain, who had recently led Britain"
"the Chatham Islands. Europeans on their voyages visited many Pacific Islands in the 16th and 17th century, but most areas of Oceania were not colonized until after the voyages of British explorer James Cook in the 1780s. As the postclassical era drew to a close in the 15th century, many of the empires established throughout the period were in decline. The Byzantine Empire would soon be overshadowed in the Mediterranean by Italian city states such as Venice and Genoa and the Ottoman Turks. The Byzantines faced repeated attacks from eastern and western powers during the Fourth Crusade, and declined further"
"Port Blair Islands Port Blair Islands are a group of islands situated in the sound of the capital Port Blair of the Andaman Islands. They belongs to the South Andaman administrative district, part of the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. see Chatham Saw Mill. The islands are located on North Bay, Navy Bay, Flat Bay, Garacharma Bay, and the vicinity of Ross Island (Andaman). Politically, Port Blair Islands are part of Port Blair Taluk. There are living quarters for the JPC manager at Chatham Island and several navy officers at the INS Jarawa quarters at Ross Island."
"Port Blair Islands Port Blair Islands are a group of islands situated in the sound of the capital Port Blair of the Andaman Islands. They belongs to the South Andaman administrative district, part of the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands. see Chatham Saw Mill. The islands are located on North Bay, Navy Bay, Flat Bay, Garacharma Bay, and the vicinity of Ross Island (Andaman). Politically, Port Blair Islands are part of Port Blair Taluk. There are living quarters for the JPC manager at Chatham Island and several navy officers at the INS Jarawa quarters at Ross Island."
"Chatham. It has a land area of 27.534 km² ( 10.631 sq mi) and reported a population of one person in the 2000 census. Together with Pleasant Island and the Inian Islands, it forms the Pleasant/Lemesurier/Inian Islands Wilderness, a wilderness area within Tongass National Forest that has been officially designated by the National Wilderness Preservation System. Lemesurier Island Lemesurier Island is the second-largest island in the Icy Strait between Chichagof Island and the mainland of the Alaska Panhandle in the U.S. state of Alaska. The island lies about midway between the mainland city of Gustavus and the northwest Chichagof Island"
"Chatham, New Hampshire Chatham is a town in Carroll County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 337 at the 2010 census. It is located in the White Mountains, and except for the southeast corner, all of Chatham is in the White Mountain National Forest. The town is home to the Cold River national forest campgrounds. Chatham was granted to Peter Livins and others, 7 February 1767, by colonial Governor Benning Wentworth. The town was named in honor of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham and Prime Minister of Great Britain, who had recently led Britain to victory in the Seven"
"Driftwood"". Cayman Islands The Cayman Islands ( or ) is an autonomous British Overseas Territory in the western Caribbean Sea. The territory comprises the three islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman, which are located to the south of Cuba and northeast of Honduras, between Jamaica and the Yucatán Peninsula. The total population of the three islands is approximately . The capital city is George Town, situated on Grand Cayman. The Cayman Islands is considered to be part of the geographic Western Caribbean Zone as well as the Greater Antilles. The territory is often considered a major world"
"the main islands, in the order of occupation are: Chatham Islands have an oceanic climate characterised by a narrow temperature range and relatively frequent rainfall. Its isolated position far from any sizeable landmass renders the record temperature for main settlement Waitangi to be just . The climate is cool, wet and windy, with average high temperatures between in summer, and between in July, the Southern Hemisphere winter. Snow is extremely rare, being recorded near sea level in July 2015 after several decades. The International Date Line lies to the east of the Chathams, even though the islands lie east of"
"History of the Cayman Islands The Cayman Islands are a British overseas territory located in the Caribbean that have been under various governments since their discovery by Europeans. Christopher Columbus sighted the Cayman Islands on May 10, 1503 and named them ""Las Tortugas"" after the numerous sea turtles seen swimming in the surrounding waters. Columbus had found the two smaller sister islands (Cayman Brac and Little Cayman) and it was these two islands that he named ""Las Tortugas"". The 1523 ""Turin map"" of the islands was the first to refer to them as ""Los Lagartos"", meaning alligators or large lizards,"
"with Tangiers. The antipodes of the Chatham Islands lie in France, just north of the city of Montpellier. The Antipodes Islands were named for their supposed antipodal position to Britain; although they are the closest land to the true antipodes of Britain, their location 49°41′S 178°48′E is directly antipodal to a point a few kilometres to the east of Cherbourg on the north coast of France. In Europe the term ""Antipodes"" is often used to refer to New Zealand and Australia (and sometimes other South Pacific areas), and ""Antipodeans"" to their inhabitants. New Zealand is part of Zealandia, a microcontinent"
"Salomon Islands The Salomon Islands or Salomon Atoll is a small atoll of the Chagos Archipelago, British Indian Ocean Territory. It is located in the Northeast of the Chagos Archipelago, between Blenheim Reef and Peros Banhos. The main islands in the group are Île Boddam, with the former main settlement, and a land area of , and Île Anglaise (), both on the western rim of the reef. There were smaller settlements of Chagossians in Fouquet () and Takamaka () Islands. Île de la Passe is in area, and Île Mapou . The remaining islets are much smaller. The total"
"used by yachtsmen to replenish their supplies. The individual islets of the atoll are, starting in the North, clockwise: Salomon Islands The Salomon Islands or Salomon Atoll is a small atoll of the Chagos Archipelago, British Indian Ocean Territory. It is located in the Northeast of the Chagos Archipelago, between Blenheim Reef and Peros Banhos. The main islands in the group are Île Boddam, with the former main settlement, and a land area of , and Île Anglaise (), both on the western rim of the reef. There were smaller settlements of Chagossians in Fouquet () and Takamaka () Islands."
"Pitt, was Prime Minister of Great Britain. Chatham Strait Chatham Strait, or Shee ya xhaak in the Tlingit language, is a narrow passage of the Alexander Archipelago in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Alaska. It separates Chichagof Island and Baranof Island to its west from Admiralty Island and Kuiu Island on its east. It is long and extends southward from the junction of Icy Strait and Lynn Canal to the open sea. The strait is deep and 5–16 km (3–10 miles) wide. The meanings of the parts of the name in the Tlingit language for Chatham Strait"
"Geography of the Cayman Islands The Cayman Islands are a British dependency and island country. It is a three-island archipelago in the Caribbean Sea, consisting of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac, and Little Cayman. Georgetown, the capital of the Cayman Islands is south of Havana, Cuba, and northwest of Kingston, Jamaica, northeast of Costa Rica, north of Panama and are between Cuba and Central America. Georgetown’s geographic coordinates are 19.300° north, 81.383° west. The Cayman Islands have a land area of approximately 1.5 times the size of Washington, D.C. and just larger than Saint Kitts and Nevis. The Cayman Islands have"
"due to the non-disclosure of a 2002 feasibility study relating to the resettlement of the former inhabitants of the Chagos Islands. The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ruled against reviewing the case on 29 June 2016. The Chagos Islands are a cluster of 60 islands and seven atolls in the Indian Ocean. First occupied by lepers from Mauritius, France acquired the islands in the late 18th century, and slaves were brought in from Africa and India to maintain coconut plantations placed there. Following Napoleon's defeat in 1814, the islands were ceded to the British in the Treaty of Paris,"
"their former allies. Fighting was still in progress when the New Zealand Company ship ""Cuba"" arrived as part of a scheme to buy land for settlement. The Treaty of Waitangi, at that stage, did not apply to the islands. The company negotiated a truce between the two warring tribes. In 1841, the New Zealand Company had proposed to establish a German colony on the Chathams. The proposal was discussed by the directors and John Ward signed an agreement with Karl Sieveking of Hamburg on 12 September 1841. However, when the Colonial Office said that the islands were to be part"
"History of Chatham Islands numismatics In 1999 a private organisation, the Chatham Islands Note Corporation, issued banknotes to celebrate the Chatham Islands being the first human inhabited land to enter the third millennium. Banknotes such as these cannot be declared legal tender, there is no obligation for anyone to accept the notes issued by the Chatham Island Note Corporation in any transaction. These notes were reported to have been accepted by merchants on the Chatham Islands, some of whom served as directors of the issuer. The Chatham Islands Note Corporation was initially based in Christchurch. The agent for providing the"
"the hands of invading North Island Māori. Moriori castrated some male infants in order to control population growth. William R. Broughton landed on 29 November 1791, and claimed possession of the islands for Great Britain, naming them after his ship, HMS ""Chatham"". Sealers and whalers soon made the islands a centre of their activities, competing for resources with the native population. The population was estimated at about 1,600 in the mid-1830s with about 10% and 20% of the population having died from infectious diseases such as influenza since the arrival of sealers, ex-convicts and Māori from about 1810. The effects"
"the Chatham Islands in the Pacific, Mauritius, the Seychelles and Réunion in the Indian Ocean, and the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean. The family has adapted to most of the habitats available on the planet. These species may be arboreal, terrestrial, or semi-terrestrial. Various species also inhabit savannas, grasslands, deserts, temperate woodlands and forests, mangrove forests, and even the barren sands and gravels of atolls. Some species have large natural ranges. The eared dove ranges across the entirety of South America from Colombia to Tierra del Fuego, the Eurasian collared dove has a massive (if discontinuous) distribution from Britain across"
"Cayman Islands The Cayman Islands ( or ) is an autonomous British Overseas Territory in the western Caribbean Sea. The territory comprises the three islands of Grand Cayman, Cayman Brac and Little Cayman, which are located to the south of Cuba and northeast of Honduras, between Jamaica and the Yucatán Peninsula. The total population of the three islands is approximately . The capital city is George Town, situated on Grand Cayman. The Cayman Islands is considered to be part of the geographic Western Caribbean Zone as well as the Greater Antilles. The territory is often considered a major world offshore"
"sovereignty claims. In addition, advocacy on the Chagossians' behalf continues both in the United States and in Europe. , Mauritius has taken the matter to the International Court of Justice for an advisory opinion, against British objections. In November 2016, the United Kingdom restated it would not permit Chagossians to return to their homeland. The Chagos had been part of Mauritius since the 18th century when the French first settled the islands. All of the islands forming part of the French colonial territory of Isle de France (as Mauritius was then known) were ceded to the British in 1810 under"
"HMS Chatham (1788) HMS ""Chatham"" was a Royal Navy survey brig that accompanied HMS ""Discovery"" on George Vancouver's exploration of the west coast of North America in his 1791–1795 expedition. ""Chatham"" was built by King, of Dover and launched in early 1788. She was purchased for navy service on 12 February 1788. ""Chatham""'s first significant voyage was Vancouver's five-year mission to the South Seas and Pacific Northwest coast of America. Her commander was Lieutenant William Robert Broughton, with 2nd Lieutenant James Hanson. In November 1791, while exploring the South Pacific, Broughton's crew were the first Europeans to sight the Chatham"
"Air Chathams Air Chathams Limited is an airline based in Te One, the Chatham Islands, New Zealand. It was established in 1984 and operates scheduled passenger services between the Chatham Islands and mainland New Zealand along with routes between Auckland and Whakatane, and Auckland and Whanganui. Its main base is Chatham Islands / Tuuta Airport. The airline was set up by Craig and Marion Emeny in 1984, and has grown into a reliable and safe airline that supports the transportation of both freight and people to and from mainland New Zealand. Craig Emeny first moved to the Chatham Islands as"
"fish farms under the jurisdiction of the federal Department of Fisheries and Oceans. The archipelago is the traditional territory of the Kwicksutaineuk-ah-kwa-mish and Tsawataineuk subgroups of the Kwakwaka'wakw peoples and is the focus of controversy over commercial fish-farming by Norwegian aquaculture companies. One of the most prominent studies carried out to assess the relationship between fish farms and sea lice infestations on wild species was carried out in this archipelago in the spring of 2002. Broughton Archipelago was named in 1792 by George Vancouver in honor of William Robert Broughton, the captain of the expedition's second ship, ""HMS Chatham"". Broughton"