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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 ...
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.
The islands are small and rocky. In 1980, they consisted of McDonald Island (186 metres (610 ft) high), Flat Island (55 metres (180 ft) high) and Meyer Rock (170 metres (560 ft) high). They totalled approximately 2.5 square kilometres (1.0 sq mi) in area. Like Heard Island, they were surface exposures of the Kerguelen Plateau. [2] [3]
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; MacDonald Island, in ...
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.
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This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Heard Island and McDonald Islands. There are approximately 29 mammal species in Heard Island and McDonald Islands. [1] [2] The following tags are used to highlight each species' conservation status as assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature: [3]