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    The geography of the Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HIMI) refers to the geography of Heard Island and the McDonald Islands, one of the most remote...
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    The Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HIMI; ISO 3166 region code: HMD, HM, 334;) is an Australian external territory comprising a volcanic...
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    up the Australian external territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands. The McDonald Islands are the emergent peaks of submarine volcanoes and are...
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    Mountain, Emperor William Peak and Kaiser Wilhelm-Berg) is a volcanic massif that dominates the geography of Heard Island in the southern Indian Ocean. It...
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    plateau breaks sea level, forming the Kerguelen Islands (a French overseas territory) plus the Heard and McDonald Islands (an Australian external territory)...
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    list of glaciers of Heard Island and McDonald Islands in Antarctica. This list may not reflect recently named glaciers in Heard Island and McDonald Islands...
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    from "Schmidt Glacier (Heard Island and McDonald Islands)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.  Portal: Geography...
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    Earth, with the closest territory being the Heard Island and McDonald Islands territory of Australia located at roughly 450 km (240 nmi), and the nearest...
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  • Needle Island is a pinnacle rock lying 0.2 nautical miles (0.4 km) west of the north end of McDonald Island in the McDonald Islands. It was surveyed and given...
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    Atlas Cove (category Bays of Heard Island and McDonald Islands)
    on the north coast of Heard Island and McDonald Islands in the southern Indian Ocean, and is entered between the base of the Laurens Peninsula and Rogers...
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    Mawson Peak (category Volcanoes of Heard Island and McDonald Islands)
    of the Big Ben massif on Heard Island, an external Australian territory in the Indian Ocean. With an elevation of 2,745 metres (9,006 ft), it is the third...
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  • The UN geoscheme includes the Baltic states, the British Isles, and the Channel Islands in Northern Europe. The UN geoscheme includes Heard Island and...
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    Subregion (redirect from Geographic Realms)
    Territories Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Heard Island and McDonald Islands Heard Island McDonald Islands Macquarie Island Zealandia Cato Reef...
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  • Thumbnail for Allison Glacier (Heard Island)
    Click here Archived 11 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine to see a map of Heard Island and McDonald Islands, including all major topographical features...
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  • Spit Bay (category Bays of Heard Island and McDonald Islands)
    The name appears on a chart by the British, who utilized many names then in use by the sealers. Heard Island and McDonald Islands are located in the Southern...
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  • tender to the Corinthian in Captain Erasmus Darwin Rogers' sealing fleet which landed at Heard Island in 1855. Heard Island and McDonald Islands Archived...
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  • nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) northwest of Shag Island and 7 nautical miles (13 km; 8.1 mi) north of Heard Island. This rock, though positioned several...
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  • southward of Fairchild Beach and between Compton Glacier and Brown Glacier, on the northeast side of Heard Island. Travelling westwards from the sandy Fairchild...
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  • incorporates public domain material from "Little Matterhorn (Heard Island)". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. v t...
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    preparation of the Admiralty chart. In so doing, however, the misspelling "Cape Arcona" was used on the British chart. Heard Island and McDonald Islands, including...
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    Brown Glacier (category Glaciers of Heard Island and McDonald Islands)
    1017/S0032247400017988. Retrieved 7 June 2010. A map of Heard Island and McDonald Islands Archived 11 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine, including all major topographical...
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    Antarctic island now part of Australia's Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands. The island is named for her husband, Captain John Jay Heard, who alongside...
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    Elephant Spit (category Landforms of Heard Island and McDonald Islands)
    at the eastern end of subantarctic Heard Island, in the Australian territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands, lying in the Southern Ocean on the Kerguelen...
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    Hatutu Heard Island and McDonald Islands The upper alpine zone and nival zone of the Himalaya (and most other high mountains). Howland Island Ilha da...
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    Antarctic Convergence (category Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the USGS Geographic Names Information System)
    Kingdom) Gough Island  Bouvet Island (Norway)  Heard Island and McDonald Islands (Australia) Kerguelen Islands (France)  South Georgia and the South Sandwich...
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    and the Arts, which is also responsible for the administration of the territories of Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, the Coral Sea Islands...
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    Anzac Peak (category Volcanoes of Heard Island and McDonald Islands)
    Click here Archived 11 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine to see a map of Heard Island and McDonald Islands, including all major topographical features...
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  • Islands as part of South America, and Heard Island and McDonald Islands as part of Oceania. South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands is sometimes considered...
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    south of the Equator, the Campbell Island Group, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Bouvet Island, the South Georgia Group, Macquarie Island, and the South...
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    Challenger Glacier (category Glaciers of Heard Island and McDonald Islands)
    Click here Archived 11 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine to see a map of Heard Island and McDonald Islands, including all major topographical features...
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