English seal hunter Abraham Bristow discovers the Auckland Islands, an archipelago of New Zealand, lying four hundred and sixty-five kilometers (two hundred and ninety miles) south of the South Island.
Finding them uninhabited, Bristow names them "Lord Auckland's" on August 18, 1806 in honor of his father's friend William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland.
Bristow works for the businessman Samuel Enderby, the namesake of Enderby Island.
He will return the following year on the Sarah in order to claim the archipelago for Britain.
