Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HIMI) are uninhabited, barren islands located in the Southern Ocean at , about two-thirds of the way from Madagascar to Antarctica. They have been part of Australia since 1947, and contain the only two active volcanoes in Australian territory, one of which, Mawson Peak, is the highest Australian mountain. The group's size is 372 km² in area.

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Heard Island (368 km²) is bleak and mountainous, covered in glaciers and dominated by Mawson Peak, a 2745 metre high volcano which forms part of the Big Ben massif. Heard Island is located at . Mawson Peak is the highest Australian mountain (527m higher than Mount Kosciuszko), and one of only 2 active volcanoes in Australian territory.

The other active volcano in Australian territory is on McDonald Island: after being dormant for 75,000 years, it erupted in 1992 and has erupted again several times since, its most recent eruption being on 10 August 2005.

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Study Abroad in Heard Island and McDonald Islands Abroad... http://tinyurl.com/ydv8wkr
freda_b0zo (Freda Bullock) Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:01:10 -0000
Study Abroad in Heard Island and McDonald Islands Abroad... http://tinyurl.com/ydv8wkr
Island: Sista McDonalds-burgaren: Tusentals islänningar anstormade på fredagen Islands McDonald's-restauranger... http://bit.ly/4zO1Df
mobilsvt (Mobilsvt) Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:31:02 -0000
Island: Sista McDonalds-burgaren: Tusentals islänningar anstormade på fredagen Islands McDonald's-restauranger... http://bit.ly/4zO1Df
Study Abroad in Heard Island and McDonald Islands Abroad... http://tinyurl.com/yz5jg9w
letha3bgzw (Letha Wall) Fri, 30 Oct 2009 08:28:22 -0000
Study Abroad in Heard Island and McDonald Islands Abroad... http://tinyurl.com/yz5jg9w
kan inte Islands statsminister engelska? Är det därför de inte har McDonald's? #jobb09
politikern (John Johansson) Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:33:06 -0000
kan inte Islands statsminister engelska? Är det därför de inte har McDonald's? #jobb09
@francoistetaz wow my mcdonald/scaggs homo-erotic fantasy one step closer to reality. i hope they give us a bit of "islands in the stream"
iamfauxpas (Tim Shiel) Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:21:21 -0000
@francoistetaz wow my mcdonald/scaggs homo-erotic fantasy one step closer to reality. i hope they give us a bit of "islands in the stream"
Guten Morgen Twitteristi! #BBCworld berichtet, daß McDonald's Island aufgibt. Was wird jetzt aus Islands Ranking im Big-Mac-Index?
Susuh (Susuh) Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:38:03 -0000
Guten Morgen Twitteristi! #BBCworld berichtet, daß McDonald's Island aufgibt. Was wird jetzt aus Islands Ranking im Big-Mac-Index?

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