Heard and McDonald Islands
Remote volcanic sub-Antarctic islands in the southern Indian Ocean surrounded by a large marine World Heritage property and crucial breeding habitat for seals, penguins, petrels and albatrosses.
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Remote volcanic sub-Antarctic islands in the southern Indian Ocean surrounded by a large marine World Heritage property and crucial breeding habitat for seals, penguins, petrels and albatrosses. It shows how volcanic activity, glaciers, ocean conditions and large marine-bird and mammal colonies meet in one unusually intact Southern Ocean system.
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It shows how volcanic activity, glaciers, ocean conditions and large marine-bird and mammal colonies meet in one unusually intact Southern Ocean system.
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Heard and McDonald Islands
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