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Introduction: HEARD ISLAND AND MCDONALD ISLANDS

These uninhabited, barren, sub-Antarctic islands were transferred from the UK to Australia in 1947. Populated by large numbers of seal and bird species, the islands have been designated a nature preserve.

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 Coordinates:	53 06 S, 72 31 E
Area:	total: 412 sq km land: 412 sq km water: 0 sq km
Area Comparative:	slightly more than two times the size of Washington, DC
Land Boundaries:	0 km
Coastline:	101.9 km
Maritime Claims:	territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive fishing zone: 200 nm
Climate:	antarctic
Terrain:	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
Elavation Extremes:	lowest point: Indian Ocean 0 m highest point: Mawson Peak, on Big Ben 2,745 m
Natural Resources:	fish
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Administratives Divisions:	territory of Australia; administered from Canberra by the Australian Antarctic Division of the Department of the Environment and Heritage
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