Heard and McDonald Islands

Heard and McDonald Islands skrevs in på UNESCO:s världsarvslista 1997 som naturarv i Australia. Platsen hör till regionen Asia and the Pacific.

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UNESCOHeard Island and McDonald Islands are located in the Southern Ocean, approximately 1,700 km from the Antarctic continent and 4,100 km south-west of Perth. As the only volcanically active subantarctic islands they ‘open a window into the earth’, thus providing the opportunity to observe ongoing geomorphic processes and glacial dynamics. The distinctive conservation value of Heard and McDonald – one of the world’s rare pristine island ecosystems – lies in the complete absence of alien plants and animals, as well as human impact.