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New Zealand Subantarctic Islands

New Zealand Subantarctic Islands is a DX entity in Oceania, in CQ zone 32 and ITU zone 60. Its primary prefix is ZL9.

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Figure 1. New Zealand Subantarctic Islands and its first-level subdivisions, with neighbouring land in grey. Hover for names; scroll to zoom. Boundaries: Natural Earth, Admin 0 Map Subunits and Admin 1 States and Provinces, 1:10m, version 5.1.2 (13 May 2022), public domain, retrieved 2026-10-15. https://www.naturalearthdata.com/. DX entity boundaries assembled by The DX Atlas Project from the sources named, one recipe row per DXCC entity (subunits matched, merged, split by box or carved from a parent; DXEntity-Recipe.md), 2026. Simplified for this page to 0.005446 degrees, about 606 m; exported 30 October 2026. Projection: Lambert azimuthal equal-area centred on 50.3° S 172.4° E.

Data sheet

DXCC entity code	016
Name in the ADIF standard	NEW ZEALAND SUBANTARCTIC ISLANDS
Continent	Oceania
Primary prefix	ZL9
CQ zone	32
ITU zone	60

Prefixes

ZL9 is the primary prefix. The country files list 1 prefix for New Zealand Subantarctic Islands.

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ZL9

Sources: Jim Reisert AD1C, Big CTY country files, 15 September 2026. https://www.country-files.com/ (MIT licence); ADIF Development Group, ADIF Specification version 3.1.8 (2026-10-12), DXCC Entity Code enumeration. https://adif.org/; ARRL, DXCC List (current and deleted entities), January 2026. https://www.arrl.org/country-lists-prefixes; Flag: Flagpedia.net (flagcdn.com), SVG, public domain, retrieved 2026-10-10.