| Cape Expedition | |
|---|---|
| Part of World War II | |
 Map of New Zealand's subantarctic outlying islands | |
| Location | New Zealand's subantarctic outlying islands |
| Objective | Coastwatching and scientific work |
| Date | 1941–1945 |
| Executed by | Public Works Department |
| Outcome | No enemy ships sighted, valuable meteorological and other scientific data collected |
The Cape Expedition was the deliberately misleading name given to a secret five-year wartime program of establishing coastwatching stations on New Zealand’s more distant uninhabited subantarctic islands. The decision to do so was made by the New Zealand Government's War Cabinet in December 1940, with the program terminating at the end of the Pacific War in 1945.[1]
- ^ Hall (1950).