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Why
Poor Knights Islands
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It's a diver's paradise. Even Jacques Cousteau called it one of the world's ten best dive destinations.
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Appeal
to divers
It has spectacular walls, archways, sea caves, and more. Visibility and dive-spot quantity are also exemplary.
Poor Knights Islands has a remarkable biodiversity:
Although
Poor Knights Islands lies in the temperate zone, it hosts both temperate climate
and subtropical sea life. The latter is carried in by a warm converging current from the
Coral Sea.
Fishes
are bountiful because fishing in the immediate area is banned.
Visitor
limitation
Poor Knights Islands and the water surrounding it are now a well-protected marine reserve. You cannot set foot on land unless you are doing approved scientific research. However, you can moor (but not land-tie) your dive boat.
Sea
Cave
Rikoriko Cave is so large that live-aboard dive boats spend the night in it.
Name
Lore tells us that Captain Cook gave the island group its name in 1769 because it somehow reminded him of an English breakfast preparation called Poor Knights Pudding.
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Underwater photo by John Radoff - CC BY 3.0
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