Off which major land mass is Lord Howe Island?
Lord Howe Island Airport Lord Howe Island Airport Lord Howe Island Airport is an airport providing air transportation to Lord Howe Island. Lord Howe Island is located in the Tasman Sea, east of Port Macquarie on the coast of mainland Australia. The airport is operated by the Lord Howe Island Board. Lord Howe Island (along with Norfolk Island) is an important transit and refueling point for light aircraft flying between Australia and New Zealand. Located to the west is the Australian mainland, and to the east is Norfolk Island Airport which is within range of New Zealand to the southeast and New Caledonia to
Lord Howe Island of these is the pointed rocky islet Ball's Pyramid, a eroded volcano about to the southeast, which is uninhabited but bird-colonised. It contains the only known wild population of the Lord Howe Island stick insect, formerly thought to be extinct. To the north there is the Admiralty Group, a cluster of seven small uninhabited islands. Just off the east coast is Mutton Bird Island, and in the lagoon is the Blackburn (Rabbit) Island. Lord Howe Island is the highly eroded remains of a 7-million-year-old shield volcano, the product of eruptions that lasted for about 500,000 years. It is one of