Heard Island and McDonald Islands
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The Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands is an Australian external territory comprising a volcanic group of mostly barren Antarctic islands, about two-thirds of the way from Madagascar to Antarctica. The group's overall area is 372 km2 (144 sq mi) and it has 101.9 km (63 mi) of coastline. Discovered in the mid-19th century, the islands lie on the Kerguelen Plateau in the Indian Ocean and have been an Australian territory since 1947.
Heard Island and McDonald Islands
Heard Island 1887 by Henry Wood Elliott
Vortex shedding as winds pass Heard Island resulted in this Kármán vortex street in the clouds.
Processing elephant seals on Heard Island – a 19th-century scene
Antarctic
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The Antarctic is a polar region around Earth's South Pole, opposite the Arctic region around the North Pole.
An October 2006 NASA satellite image of the Antarctic without its periphery of unattached sea ice
Antarctic krill.
Chinstrap penguin.
Moubray Bay and Mount Herschel in Eastern Antarctica