Enderby was appointed
Lieutenant Governor of the Auckland Islands. In December 1849, he led an expedition comprising three ships carrying 150 settlers and stores to the Auckland Islands and established the Enderby Settlement in Erebus Cove,
Port Ross, at the north-eastern end of
Auckland Island, close to
Enderby Island. Land was cleared for the colony and whaling station and the community of Hardwicke established. The settlement was based on
agriculture, resupply and minor repair of ships, and whaling. However, the cold, damp climate and acid soils made agriculture impossible, and the eight whaling ships attached to the station caught very few whales. Ultimately unsuccessful, the colony was abandoned in August 1852. Charles Enderby died in poverty in London on 31 August 1876. ==References==