Heard Island and McDonald Islands

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. The islands and surrounding waters teem with wildlife and other natural wonders that make HIMI a special place.

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Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HIMI) are surface exposures of the second largest submarine plateau in the world, the Kerguelen Plateau. The Kerguelen Plateau is approximately two million square kilometres in area, and stands around 3000 metres above the surroundng sea floor.

Heard Island and McDonald Islands Marine Reserve was declared on October 16, 2002, to protect the conservation values of the reserve area, the territorial sea and the adjacent exclusive economic zone.

Heard Island and McDonald Islands were inscribed as a World Heritage site in 1997.

Heard Island and McDonald Islands - Definition = Heard Island, from NASA World Wind Heard Island and the McDonald Islands are uninhabited, barren islands located in the Southern Ocean at 53°6'S, 72°31'E, about two-thirds of the way from Madagascar to

The Capital of Heard Island and McDonald Islands is . A person from Heard Island and McDonald Islands is called McDonald Islander.

NOTE: The information regarding Heard Island and McDonald Islands on this page is re-published from the 2011 World Fact Book of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Heard Island and McDonald Islands Geography 2011 information contained here.

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Heard island and McDonald Islands lie on the Kerguelen-Heard submarine plateau and rise from the Southern Ocean just south of the border between icy southern and warmer northern waters, the Antarctic Convergence.

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