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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.
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.
The island is named for her husband, Captain John Jay Heard, who alongside Fidelia is credited with first spotting the landmass on November 25, 1853. [1] The island's Fidelia Isthmus is named for Fidelia herself. [1] A view of Heard Island from a boat. Fidelia was born in Easton, Massachusetts, in 1822.
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 (Ontario), in the St. Lawrence River
There is a small group of islets and rocks about 10 kilometres (6 mi) northeast of the northern coast of Heard Island, consisting of Shag Islet, [5] Sail Rock, Drury Rock, and Black Rock. They total about 1.1 square kilometres (0.4 sq mi) in area. Morgan Island is 2 kilometres (1 mi) east of Cape Bidlingmaier on Heard Island.
The 1562 map of the Americas, created by Spanish cartographer Diego Gutiérrez, which applied the name California for the first time.. California was the name given to a mythical island populated only by beautiful Amazon warriors, as depicted in Greek myths, using gold tools and weapons in the popular early 16th-century romance novel Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Adventures of Esplandián) by ...
Treaties extended to Heard Island and McDonald Islands (15 P) Pages in category "Heard Island and McDonald Islands" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
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 ...