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Macquarie Island is a subantarctic island in the south-western Pacific Ocean, ... damaging the Macquarie Island ecosystem by altering significant areas of island ...
The Macquarie Island Marine Park (previously known as the Macquarie Island Commonwealth Marine Reserve) is an Australian marine park surrounding Macquarie Island in the southwest Pacific. The marine park covers an area of 475,465 km 2 (183,578 sq mi) and is assigned IUCN category IV.
Macquarie Island (433 m or 1,421 ft) is the furthest south and the coldest. Where present, soils are mainly boggy peats, up to 8 m (26.2 ft) deep in flat areas. None of the islands are inhabited although there are ongoing research projects including a permanent base of the Australian Antarctic Division on Macquarie Island.
A gently sloping, flatter region adjacent to a continent (or around an island) or at abyssal depths. Slope: A sloped area seaward from the shelf edge to the upper edge of a continental rise or the point where there is a general reduction in slope. Trench; saddle:
The Macquarie Island Station, commonly called Macca, [2] is a permanent Australian subantarctic research base on Macquarie Island, situated in the Southern Ocean and located approximately halfway between Mainland Australia and Antarctica, managed by the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD).
The royal penguin (Eudyptes schlegeli) is a species of penguin, which can be found only on the sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island and adjacent islands. [2] The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) classifies the royal penguin as Least Concern. [1] The scientific name commemorates the German zoologist Hermann Schlegel.
Bergstrom has published extensively on Antarctic science and is well recognised for her highly influential work in the invasive species field, [11] [12] [13] for quantifying the effects of cat eradication on Macquarie Island [14] [15] and for her abundant work on Antarctic and sub-Antarctic plant ecology and threats.
The Macquarie Island parakeet became extinct about 1891. The Macquarie Island rail, an endemic subspecies of the buff-banded rail, disappeared about the same time. The Pacific black duck population on Macquarie Island is threatened by crossbreeding with introduced mallards, [1] [2] a common problem on Australian and New Zealand islands. [3]