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Heard Island and McDonald Islands official web site. ... ; Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HIMI) is a subantarctic island group located in the Southern Ocean, about 4,000 kilometres south west of mainland Australia.
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www.heardisland.aq/
www.heardisland.aq/
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Due to the extreme isolation of Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HIMI), together with the persistently severe weather and sea conditions, human activities in the region have been, and remain, limited.
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www.heardisland.aq/about/human_activities.html
www.heardisland.aq/about/human_activities.html
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Big Ben (Heard Island) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Big Ben is a volcanic massif that dominates the geography of Heard Island. It is a composite cone with a diameter of approximately 25 kilometres. Its highest peak is Mawson Peak, one of only two acti...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Ben_(Heard_Island)
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Introduction ::Heard Island and McDonald Islands ... Heard Island - 80% ice-covered, bleak and mountainous, dominated by a large massif (Big Ben) and an active volcano (Mawson Peak); McDonald Islands - small and rocky...
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www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geo...
www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/hm.html
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Heard Island is situated in the extreme Southern Indian Ocean, on the Kerguelen Plateau, 4,100 km south-west of the Australian continent and 1,500 km north of Antarctica. Heard and McDonald Islands lie 40 km apart, the McDonald Islands to the west of Heard Island.
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www.btinternet.com/~sa_sa/heard_island/heard.html
www.btinternet.com/~sa_sa/heard_island/heard.html
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The Australian Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HIMI) is one of the wildest places on earth - a smoking volcano under snow and glacial ice that rises above the world's stormiest waters. ... Australian Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 1997.
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www.environment.gov.au/heritage/places/world/heard-mcdo...
www.environment.gov.au/heritage/places/world/heard-mcdonald/index.html
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The Australian Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HIMI) lies in a remote and stormy part of the globe, near the conspicuous meeting-point of Antarctic and temperate ocean waters. ... Heard Island (area 368 km2) is the principal island of HIMI. Mawson Peak, at 2745 m, is the summit of Big Ben, an active,
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www.environment.gov.au/coasts/mpa/heard/
www.environment.gov.au/coasts/mpa/heard/
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NOTE: The information regarding Heard Island and McDonald Islands on this page is re-published from the 2009 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Heard Island and McDonald Islands 2009 information contained here.
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www.theodora.com/wfbcurrent/heard_island_and_mcdonald_i...
www.theodora.com/wfbcurrent/heard_island_and_mcdonald_islands/index.html
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(redirected from Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands) ... Heard Island, 42 km/26 mi by 19 km/12 mi, is glacier-covered, although the volcanic mountain Big Ben (2,742 m/9,000 ft) is still active. A weather station was built in 1947.
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encyclopedia.farlex.com/Territory+of+Heard+Island+and+M...
encyclopedia.farlex.com/Territory+of+Heard+Island+and+McDonald+Islands
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