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Heard Island and McDonald Islands
| Location |
S Indian Ocean, S of Kerguelen |
| Latitude and longitude |
53 06 S, 72 31 E |
| Sovereignty |
Australia |
| Political status notes |
Officially, "Territory of Heard Island and McDonald
Islands"; a Territory of the Commonwealth of Australia |
| Population |
uninhabited; scientific expeditions only |
| Land area in square kilometers |
412 |
| Capital |
Administered from Canberra |
Fundamental legal document(s) online
|
| Heard
Island and McDonald Islands Act 1953, as amended (Australia), from
the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia |
Sources and other useful websites
|
| Dependencies
and Areas of Special Sovereignty, Office of the Geographer and
Global Issues, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of
State, Washington, D.C. |
| Australian Law Reform Commission, External
Territories |
| United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO), World Heritage List: Heard
and McDonald
Islands |
| Proposed Heard
Islands and McDonald Islands Marine Preserve, from the
Australian Government's Environment Australia pages |
| Heard
Island and McDonald Islands, from the Australian Government’s
Antarctic Division |
| Heard
Island, Southern Indian Ocean, from Paul Carroll’s The
Subatlantic and Antarctic Islands |
| U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, The
World Factbook |
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