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Bookmark or Share- Heard Island and McDonald Islands - WikipediaThe Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HIMI; ISO 3166 region code: HMD, HM, 334;) is an Australian external territory comprising a volcanic group of mostly barren Antarctic islands, about two-thirds of the way from Madagascar to Antarctica.
- Heard Island And McDonald Islands - WorldAtlasGeography. The Heard and McDonald Islands form the exposed portions of the submarine oceanic Kerguelen Plateau. These islands are the only volcanically active subantarctic islands, with the McDonald Island and the Mawson Peak being the two active sub-Antarctic volcanoes in the entire Australian territory. Lava flow on Mawson Peak, Heard Island.
- World Heritage Places - Heard and McDonald Islands - DCCEEWThe 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.
- Heard Island and McDonald Islands – Travel guide at WikivoyageHeard Island and McDonald Islands are uninhabited, barren, Subantarctic islands in the Southern Ocean, far due south of India and roughly 400 km southeast of Kerguelen of the French Southern and Antarctic Lands. The islands are administered by Australia and listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site.
- Heard Island and McDonald Islands - BritannicaHeard Island and McDonald Islands, subantarctic island groups, together forming an external territory of Australia and lying in the southern Indian Ocean 2,500 miles (4,000 km) southwest of Perth. Volcanic in origin, Heard Island is 27 miles (43 km) long, 13 miles (21 km) wide, and rises to 9,005
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