The North East Island is the main island of the Snares Island group at 48°01′S 166°36′E approximately 200 kilometres (124.3 mi) south of New Zealand's

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 South Island

South Island

The South Island is the larger of the two major islands of New Zealand, the other being the more populous North Island. It is bordered to the north by Cook Strait, to the west by the Tasman Sea, to the south and east by the Pacific Ocean...

. The island forms a central triangle with peninsulas to the north, south and to the west and is some 3 by long by wide. Off the South Promontory lies Broughton Island

Broughton Island, New Zealand

Broughton Island is the second largest island of The Snares, at just off the South Promontory of the main island North East Island, which lies approximately south of New Zealand's South Island. The island is some long in SW direction, and the highest elevation is...

, the second largest island in the group. South off the western peninsula coast lies the islet Alert Stack and off the North Promontory lies the North and South Daption Rocks.

The highest elevation of 130 m (427 ft) is at the western peninsula.

See also

• List of islands of New Zealand
• New Zealand sub-antarctic islands
  New Zealand sub-antarctic islands
  The five southernmost groups of the New Zealand Outlying Islands form the New Zealand Sub-Antarctic islands. These islands are collectively designated as an UNESCO World Heritage Site....
  
  
• List of sub-Antarctic islands