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Heard Island

Heard Island and McDonald Islands is an external territory of Australia in the southern Indian Ocean. It is a group of sub-Antarctic volcanic islands that lie on the Kerguelen Plateau. It is about 4,000 km (2,500 mi) south-west of the Australian mainland and 1,700 km (1,100 mi) north of Antarctica. The territory contains Australia's only active volcanoes, including Mawson Peak, a volcanic cone that is the country's highest point outside the Australian Antarctic Territory. Uninhabited and remote, the islands are a nature reserve and a World Heritage Site. Heavily glaciated, Heard Island (pictured) is dominated by Big Ben, a stratovolcano that is topped by Mawson Peak. Heard Island and the McDonald Islands are home to many eastern rockhopper, gentoo, macaroni, and king penguins. With more than one million breeding pairs, Heard Island contains about 20 per cent of the world's macaroni penguins. The islands also contain substantial populations of elephant seals and Antarctic fur seals. ( Full article... )

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