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Brief History. Captain John Heard, an American sealer on the ship Oriental, sighted the island on November 25, 1853, en route from Boston to Melbourne. He reported the discovery one month later and had the island named after him. Coincidentally, Captain William McDonald aboard the Samarang discovered the McDonald Islands close to Heard Island shortly afterwards on January 4, 1854. Island is famous for having a number of wrecks in the vicinity of the islands. The islands have been part of Australia since 1947, and became a World Heritage Site in 1997.

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Local name: Heard Island and McDonald Islands

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Population: uninhabited

Government: territory of Australia; administered from Canberra by the Australian Antarctic Division of the Department of the Environment and Heritage

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Land size: 412 sq km

Topography: Heard Island - 80% ice-covered, bleak and mountainous, dominated by a large massif (Big Ben) and an active volcano (Mawson Peak); McDonald Islands - small and rocky

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