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The Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands [2] [3] (HIMI; [4] ISO 3166 region code: HMD, HM, 334; [5]) is an Australian external territory comprising a volcanic group of mostly barren Antarctic islands, about two-thirds of the way from Madagascar to Antarctica.
The McDonald Islands comprise three islands: McDonald Island, Flat Island (which later merged with McDonald Island) and Meyer Rock. The islands are mostly composed of phonolitic low-silica pumice, dikes and lava domes, and sit atop a submarine plateau, the Kerguelen Plateau.
McDonald Island or MacDonald Island may refer to McDonald Islands , part of Heard Island and McDonald Islands group, a remote territory administered by Australia in the southern Indian Ocean McDonald Island (California) , in San Joaquin County on the San Joaquin River
McDonald Island is 1.13 square kilometres (0.4 sq mi) in size. Topographic features are the northern sloping plateau and the southern steep-sided hill named the Maxwell Hill.
MacDonald Island is part of Princess Louisa Inlet in British Columbia, located approximately 4km beyond the entrance of the inlet at Malibu Rapids towards the head of the inlet at Chatterbox Falls. [9] It is a popular mooring place for it is one of the few shallow places of the deep fjord.
Big Ben is the large massif to the bottom right (southeast) of this image of Heard Island, from NASA WorldWind. Big Ben formed about one million years ago. [5] Volcanic activity at the cone has been known since 1881.
McDonaldland takes place predominantly in its own high fantasy world, however parts of the McDonaldland world have low fantasy interactions with the real world. In earlier commercials, McDonaldland had sentient trees that grew apple pies, a hamburger patch, a French Fry patch, a shake volcano, Filet-O-Fish Lake, and the one-shot Sundae Mountain.
Macdonald seamount is located off the southeastern end of the Austral Islands. [8] The Austral Islands extend away from the southern Cook Islands to Îles Maria and eventually Marotiri southeastward, [5] including the islands Rimatara, Rurutu, Tubuai, Raivavae and Rapa. [9]