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On the Web
- Heard Island - Southern Indian Ocean - General information about the location, discovery, geography, geology, climate, and culture of the island. Includes interactive map.
- Heard Island - Shuttle photo of Heard Island.
- UNEP - Heard Island - Information about the Natural World Heritage Property of Heard Island includes location, history, physical description, cultural heritage and scientific research.
- Heard Island and McDonald Islands website - The official website for Heard Island and McDonald Islands, administered by the Australian Antarctic Division of the Department of the Environment and Heritage.
- Volcanic Activity Reports - Features reports on volcanic episodes on Heard Island from the Smithsonian Institution's Global Volcanism Program. Includes information about seismic events, and some maps showings the features of the various islands.
- Heard Island Expedition - Documents the 1997 Cordell Expedition to the island. Includes an overview, route map, basic information, detailed planning documents, and team biographies.
- Proposed Heard Island and McDonald Islands Marine Reserve - Details this proposal. Includes maps, conservation reports, and description of reserve boundaries.
- Heard Island Marine Reserve Management Plan - Details all aspects of this plan. Includes a PDF version of the report.
- Heard Island and McDonald Islands - Contains a map and general information about the islands from the CIA World Factbook.
- Heard Island and McDonald Islands Marine Reserve - Discusses the establishment of this marine reserve. Includes location and purpose, conservation values, and management issues.
Wikipedia Articles
- List of mammals in Heard Island and McDonald Islands - This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Heard Island and McDonald Islands. There are 13 mammal species in Heard Island and McDonald Islands, of which none are thought to be at risk.
- Big Ben (Heard Island) - Big Ben is a volcanic massif that dominates the geography of Heard Island. It is a composite cone with a diameter of approximately 25 kilometres.
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- Birds of Heard and McDonald Islands - The Birds of Heard Island and the adjacent McDonald Islands, whether breeders or visitors, are almost all seabirds which find their food at sea in the waters of the surrounding Southern Ocean. An exception is the Black-faced Sheathbill, an opportunistic scavenger around seal and penguin colonies and the only solely terrestrial ...
- La Soufrière (film) - La Soufrière - Warten auf eine unausweichliche Katastrophe ("La Soufrière - Waiting for an Inevitable Disaster") is a 1977 West German documentary film in which German director Werner Herzog visits an island on which a volcano is about to erupt. The pretext of this film was provided when Herzog "heard about the impending volcanic eruption, that the island of Guadeloupe had been evacuated and that one peasant had refused to leave, [he] knew [he] wanted to go talk to him and find out what kind of relationship towards death he had" (Cronin).