subantarcticadj.n.

1851 Curtis's Bot. Mag. 77 4616 Specimens of this fine subantarctic tree, collected during the voyage of Capt. Robert Fitz-Roy, in H.M. surveying ship Beagle, were long ago examined and the fruit analyzed.

1875 Encycl. Brit. III. 745 Spheniscidæ, a family limited to the Antarctic or Subantarctic Ocean.

1909 (title) The Subantarctic islands of New Zealand.

1952 J. A. Steers et al. Lake's Physical Geogr. (ed. 3) ii. iv. 203 The Peru Current..originates in the south where some of the Sub-Antarctic water flowing to the east is deflected northwards by the land.

2004 T. Wheeler Falklands & S. Georgia 43 The Antarctic fur seal occurs further south than its close and slightly smaller sub-Antarctic relatives, but their ranges overlap and the two species sometimes interbreed.

1904 A. W. Waters Bryozoa (Résultats du voyage du S. Y. Belgica: Expéd. Antarctique Belge: Zool. V. No. 2) 8 No specimen of the cosmopolitan Crisia has yet come from the Antarctic, but it is common in the Subantarctic and we may expect it to be found.

1986 Marine Geol. 71 297 Work in Canada and in the sub-Antarctic has shown that ice-related processes can be found in a wide variety of ice environments from perennial pack ice to negligible floating ice.

2011 Timaru (N.Z.) Herald (Nexis) 31 Jan. 1 The Government announced the creation of three huge marine reserves in the subantarctic, covering 435,000 hectares surrounding Antipodes Island, the Bounty Islands and Campbell Island.