| GEOGRAPHY |
| Country name: |
conventional long form: Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands
conventional short form: Heard Island and McDonald Islands |
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| Location: |
islands in the Indian Ocean, about two-thirds of the way from Madagascar to Antarctica |
| Geographic
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53 06 S, 72 31 E |
| Area: |
total: 412 sq km
land: 412 sq km
water: 0 sq km |
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slightly more than two times the size of Washington, DC |
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| Coastline: |
101.9 km |
| Maritime
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territorial sea: 12 nm
exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm |
| Climate: |
antarctic |
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Heard Island - 80% ice-covered, bleak and mountainous, dominated by a large massif (Big Ben) and an active volcano (Mawson Peak); McDonald Islands - small and rocky |
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lowest point: Indian Ocean 0 m
highest point: Mawson Peak, on Big Ben 2,745 m |
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fish |
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territory of Australia; administered from Canberra by the Australian Antarctic Division of the Department of the Environment and Heritage |
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