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Heard Island and McDonald Islands in the Southern Ocean A map of Heard Island and McDonald Islands. Heard Island, by far the largest of the group, is a 368-square-kilometre (142 sq mi) mountainous island covered by 41 glaciers [22] (the island is 80% covered with ice [2]) and dominated by the Big Ben massif.
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Spit Bay) is an open bight formed by the northeast coastline of Heard Island and Spit Point, the east extremity of the islandThe name derives from the conspicuous Elephant Spit which forms the south and east shore of the bight, and may have been given by American sealers at Heard Island in the period following their initiation of sealing there in 1855.
Map of Heard Island and McDonald Islands in the Indian Ocean. Atlas Cove is a cove on the north coast of Heard Island and McDonald Islands in the southern Indian Ocean, and is entered between the base of the Laurens Peninsula and Rogers Head. It was named by American sealers after the schooner seal hunting fleet which landed at Heard Island in ...
The geography of the Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HIMI) refers to the geography of Heard Island and the McDonald Islands, one of the most remote places on earth. The islands belong to Australia and are located 4,000 kilometres (2,485.5 mi) southwest of the mainland in the Southern Ocean .
Volcanoes of Heard Island and McDonald Islands (7 P) Pages in category "Landforms of Heard Island and McDonald Islands" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
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. An eruption occurred in 1993. [6] Satellite images detected eruptions during 2000.
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions Read; Edit; View history; ... This is an incomplete list of islands of Texas. Most of Texas' islands are ...