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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.
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.
They are located about 75 km from Heard Island. McDonald Island is the largest of the islands, at around 1 square kilometre (250 acres) in area. It has been the main focus of volcanic activity in recent times. Prior to 1996, McDonald Island had been a flat green island whose pumice beaches provided a great nesting area for penguin breeding. The ...
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.
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.
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.
Heard Island from a boat facing southwest from approximately the Shag Islets Field party, roped together, explore badly crevassed glacier - Heard Island 1950s. Heard Island is a volcanic island in the Southern Ocean that is 80% covered in ice. [1] The island is cold and steep, and experiences high levels of snowfall. [2]
Cave Bay) is a 0.3-nautical-mile-wide (0.56 km) cove indenting the west side of Heard Island, an uninhabited Australian overseas territory in the Indian Ocean, between West Bay and South West The bay was formed by the erosion of an extinct volcanic crater of which Mount Andree forms the north side.