Place:Heard and McDonald Islands, Australia

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NameHeard and McDonald Islands
Alt names.hm
.hm
Hmsource: WeRelate abbreviation
HM00source: NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1998-2000) accessed 01/20/99
TypeExternal Territory
Coordinates53°S 73.0°E
Located inAustralia
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The Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HIMI) is an Australian external territory comprising a volcanic group of mostly barren Antarctic islands, about two-thirds of the way from Madagascar to Antarctica. The group's overall size is in area and it has of coastline. Discovered in the mid-19th century, the islands lie on the Kerguelen Plateau in the Indian Ocean and have been an Australian territory since 1947. They contain Australia's only two active volcanoes. The summit of one, Mawson Peak, is higher than any mountain in all other Australian states or territories, except Dome Argus, Mount McClintock and Mount Menzies in the Australian Antarctic Territory.

The islands are among the most remote places on Earth: They are located about southwest of Perth, southwest of Cape Leeuwin, Australia, southeast of South Africa, southeast of Madagascar, north of Antarctica, and southeast of the Kerguelen Islands (part of French Southern and Antarctic Lands). The islands are uninhabited, and can only be reached by sea, which from Australia would take two weeks.

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