Heard Island and McDonald Islands

The sub-Antarctic Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HIMI) group is an Australian external territory located in the Indian Ocean sector of the Southern Ocean. The island group was inscribed on the World Heritage list in 1997 for its outstanding natural universal values, primarily due to the relative...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania
Main Author: McIvor, E
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2007
Subjects:
Royal Society of Tasmania
RST
Van Diemens Land
natural history
science
ecology
taxonomy
botany
zoology
geology
geography
papers & proceedings
Australia
UTAS Library
Antarctic
Southern Ocean
Heard Island
Indian
Heard
McDonald Islands
Antarc*
Australian Antarctic Division
Online Access:https://eprints.utas.edu.au/13330/
https://eprints.utas.edu.au/13330/4/2007_McIvor_Heard_Island.pdf
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Summary:The sub-Antarctic Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HIMI) group is an Australian external territory located in the Indian Ocean sector of the Southern Ocean. The island group was inscribed on the World Heritage list in 1997 for its outstanding natural universal values, primarily due to the relative absence of human influence on the natural environment. The Territory also forms part of a 65 000 km2 Marine Reserve, declared under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 in 2002 to protect the conservation values of the islands and the surrounding unique and vulnerable marine ecosystems. The Territory and Marine Reserve are managed by the Australian Antarctic Division of the Department of Environment and Water Resources, in accordance with the Heard Island and McDonald Islands Marine Reserve Management Plan 2005, which aims to address a range of potential human pressures, most notably the risk of introduced species.

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