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albatross Albatrosses, of the biological family Diomedeidae, are large seabirds related to the procellariids, storm petrels, and diving petrels in the order Procellariiformes (the tubenoses). They range widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacifi ...
es breed, together with a list of the species found at each location.


North Pacific Ocean

* Bonin Islands - black-footed, Laysan * French Frigate Shoals - Laysan, black-footed * Guadalupe Island ( Mexico) - Laysan * Hawaii - Laysan * Izu Islands, Japan - short-tailed ( Tori Shima only), black-footed *
Laysan Island Laysan (; haw, italics=no, Kauō ), located northwest of Honolulu at , is one of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. It comprises one land mass of , about in size. It is an atoll of sorts, although the land completely surrounds a shallow ...
- Laysan, black-footed *
Midway Island Midway Atoll (colloquial: Midway Islands; haw, Kauihelani, translation=the backbone of heaven; haw, Pihemanu, translation=the loud din of birds, label=none) is a atoll in the North Pacific Ocean. Midway Atoll is an insular area of the Unit ...
- Laysan, black-footed *
Southern Ryukyu Islands The (or 先島群島, ''Sakishima-guntō'') ( Okinawan: ''Sachishima'', Miyako: ''Saksїzїma'', Yaeyama: ''Sakїzїma'', Yonaguni: ''Satichima'') are an archipelago located at the southernmost end of the Japanese Archipelago. They are part ...
- black-footed


South America


Islands off Ecuador

* Española Island (Hood Island), Galápagos - waved *
Isla de la Plata Isla de la Plata is a small island off the coast of Manabí, Ecuador, and is part of Parque Nacional Machalilla. It can be reached by boat from the city of Puerto López, which is 40 kilometers away. On the island, there is a large diversity of ...
- waved


Subantarctic islands of South America

* Diego de Almagro Island, Chile - black-browed * Diego Ramírez Islands - grey-headed * Evangelistas Islets - black-browed * Ildefonso Islands - grey-headed, black-browed * Isla de los Estados, Argentina - black-browed


South Atlantic Ocean

* Falkland Islands - black-browed *
South Georgia South Georgia ( es, Isla San Pedro) is an island in the South Atlantic Ocean that is part of the British Overseas Territory of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. It lies around east of the Falkland Islands. Stretching in the east ...
- wandering, black-browed, grey-headed, light-mantled


Tristan group

*
Gough Island upright=1.3, Map of Gough island Gough Island ( ), also known historically as Gonçalo Álvares, is a rugged volcanic island in the South Atlantic Ocean. It is a dependency of Tristan da Cunha and part of the British overseas territory of Sain ...
- Tristan, Atlantic yellow-nosed, sooty * Inaccessible Island - Tristan, Atlantic yellow-nosed *
Nightingale Islands The Nightingale Islands are a group of three islands in the South Atlantic Ocean, part of the Tristan da Cunha territory. They consist of Nightingale Island, Middle Island and Stoltenhoff Island. The islands are administered by the United King ...
- Atlantic yellow-nosed * Tristan da Cunha - Tristan (formerly), Atlantic yellow-nosed, sooty


Indian Ocean

* Amsterdam Island - Amsterdam, Indian yellow-nosed, sooty *
Crozet Islands The Crozet Islands (french: Îles Crozet; or, officially, ''Archipel Crozet'') are a sub-Antarctic archipelago of small islands in the southern Indian Ocean. They form one of the five administrative districts of the French Southern and Antarcti ...
- wandering, Salvin's, black-browed, grey-headed, Indian yellow-nosed, sooty, light-mantled *
Heard and McDonald Islands The Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HIMI) is an Australian external territory comprising a volcanic group of mostly barren Antarctic islands, about two-thirds of the way from Madagascar to Antarctica. The group's overall size ...
- wandering, black-browed, light-mantled *
Kerguelen Islands The Kerguelen Islands ( or ; in French commonly ' but officially ', ), also known as the Desolation Islands (' in French), are a group of islands in the sub-Antarctic constituting one of the two exposed parts of the Kerguelen Plateau, a large ...
- wandering, black-browed, grey-headed, Indian yellow-nosed, sooty, light-mantled; a single Salvin's has nested *
Marion Island The Prince Edward Islands are two small uninhabited islands in the sub-Antarctic Indian Ocean that are part of South Africa. The islands are named Marion Island (named after Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne, 1724–1772) and Prince Edward Island ...
- wandering, grey-headed, sooty, light-mantled * Prince Edward Island - wandering, grey-headed, Indian yellow-nosed, sooty, light-mantled *
Saint Paul Paul; grc, Παῦλος, translit=Paulos; cop, ⲡⲁⲩⲗⲟⲥ; hbo, פאולוס השליח (previously called Saul of Tarsus;; ar, بولس الطرسوسي; grc, Σαῦλος Ταρσεύς, Saũlos Tarseús; tr, Tarsuslu Pavlus; ...
- Indian yellow-nosed, sooty


New Zealand


South Island, North Island, and nearby islands

*
Solander Island The Solander Islands / Hautere are three uninhabited volcanic islets toward the western end of the Foveaux Strait just beyond New Zealand's South Island. The Māori name ''Hautere'' translates into English as "flying wind". The islands lie s ...
(offshore from the South Island) - Buller's (Pacific form) *
Taiaroa Head Taiaroa Head is a headland at the end of the Otago Peninsula in New Zealand, overlooking the mouth of the Otago Harbour. It lies within the city limits of Dunedin. The nearest settlement, Otakou, lies three kilometres to the south. The cape is h ...
, on Otago Peninsula in the
South Island The South Island, also officially named , is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand in surface area, the other being the smaller but more populous North Island. It is bordered to the north by Cook Strait, to the west by the Tasman ...
- northern royal *
Three Kings Island 3 is a number, numeral, and glyph. 3, three, or III may also refer to: * AD 3, the third year of the AD era * 3 BC, the third year before the AD era * March, the third month Books * ''Three of Them'' (Russian: ', literally, "three"), a 1901 ...
(offshore from the North Island) - Buller's (nominate form)


Subantarctic islands of New Zealand

* Antipodes Islands -
Antipodean In geography, the antipode () of any spot on Earth is the point on Earth's surface diametrically opposite to it. A pair of points ''antipodal'' () to each other are situated such that a straight line connecting the two would pass through Ear ...
(race ''antipodensis''), shy (race ''steadi''), black-browed, light-mantled * Auckland Islands - Gibson's, southern royal (Enderby only), northern royal (Enderby only), shy (race ''steadi''), light-mantled *
Bounty Islands The Bounty Islands ( mi, Moutere Hauriri; "Island of angry wind") are a small group of 13 uninhabited granite islets and numerous rocks, with a combined area of , in the South Pacific Ocean. Territorially part of New Zealand, they lie about e ...
- Salvin's * Campbell Island - Antipodean (race ''antipodensis''), southern royal, black-browed, Campbell, grey-headed, light-mantled, sooty * Chatham Islands - northern royal,
Chatham Chatham may refer to: Places and jurisdictions Canada * Chatham Islands (British Columbia) * Chatham Sound, British Columbia * Chatham, New Brunswick, a former town, now a neighbourhood of Miramichi * Chatham (electoral district), New Brunswic ...
(Pyramid Rock only), Buller's (Pacific form), Indian yellow-nosed (shy, race ''steadi'', has also bred here twice) * Snares - Salvin's, black-browed, Buller's (nominate form); Chatham has also made a single unsuccessful breeding attempt here


Tasmania

* Albatross Island - shy (race ''cauta'') *
Mewstone Mewstone is an unpopulated island, composed of muscovite Muscovite (also known as common mica, isinglass, or potash mica) is a hydrated phyllosilicate mineral of aluminium and potassium with formula K Al2(Al Si3 O10)( F,O H)2, or ( KF)2( A ...
- shy (race ''cauta'') * Pedra Branca - shy (race ''cauta'')


Subantarctic islands of Tasmania

* Macquarie Island - wandering, black-browed, grey-headed, light-mantled **
Bishop and Clerk Islets The Bishop and Clerk Islets are a group of islets, lying south of Macquarie Island in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. They are, with Macquarie Island, part of the Australian state of Tasmania. The group consists of Bishop Islet, 24 smaller ...
- black-browed


References

*del Hoyo, Josep, Andrew Elliott and Jordi Sargatal ''
Handbook of the Birds of the World The ''Handbook of the Birds of the World'' (HBW) is a multi-volume series produced by the Spanish publishing house Lynx Edicions in partnership with BirdLife International. It is the first handbook to cover every known living species of bird. T ...
'' Volume 1 (1992) *Shirihai, Hadoram ''A Complete Guide to Antarctic Wildlife'' {{refend *
Albatrosses Albatrosses, of the biological family Diomedeidae, are large seabirds related to the procellariids, storm petrels, and diving petrels in the order Procellariiformes (the tubenoses). They range widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacifi ...
Albatrosses Albatrosses, of the biological family Diomedeidae, are large seabirds related to the procellariids, storm petrels, and diving petrels in the order Procellariiformes (the tubenoses). They range widely in the Southern Ocean and the North Pacifi ...