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| HEARD ISLAND AND MCDONALD ISLANDS GEOGRAPHY STATS: |
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Area > Comparative
slightly more than two times the size of Washington, DC |
Area > Comparative to US places
slightly more than two times the size of Washington, DC |
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Area > Land
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195 sq km
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[195th of 236]
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Area > Total
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207 sq km
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[207th of 248]
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Area > Water
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197 sq km
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[197th of 237]
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Climate
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antarctic |
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Coastline
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170 km
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[170th of 249]
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Elevation extremes > Highest point
Mawson Peak, on Big Ben 2,745 m |
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Elevation extremes > Lowest point
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Indian Ocean 0 m |
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Geographic coordinates
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53 06 S, 72 31 E |
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Land use > Arable land
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230 %
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[230th of 241]
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Land use > Other
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26 %
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[26th of 241]
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Location
islands in the Indian Ocean, about two-thirds of the way from Madagascar to Antarctica |
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Map references
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Antarctic Region |
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Maritime claims > Exclusive fishing zone
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12 nm
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[12th of 33]
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Maritime claims > Territorial sea
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80 nm
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[80th of 190]
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Natural resources
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fish |
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Population density
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245 people per sqkm |
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[245th of 256]
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tallest mountains > Mountain
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Mawson Peak |
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Terrain
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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SOURCES: The area of various small countries expressed in comparison to various areas within the United States of America.
; This entry provides an area comparison based on total area equivalents. Most entities are compared with the entire US or one of the 50 states based on area measurements (1990 revised) provided by the US Bureau of the Census. The smaller entities are compared with Washington, DC (178 sq km, 69 sq mi) or The Mall in Washington, DC (0.59 sq km, 0.23 sq mi, 146 acres).
; Total land area in square kilometres
; Total area in square kilometers
; Total water area in square kilometers
; A brief description of typical weather regimes throughout the year.
; The total length of the boundary between the land area (including islands) and the sea.
; Highest point above sea level
; Lowest point relative to sea level
; This entry includes rounded latitude and longitude figures for the purpose of finding the approximate geographic center of an entity and is based on the Gazetteer of Conventional Names, Third Edition, August 1988, US Board on Geographic Names and on other sources.
; The percentage of used land that is arable. Arable land is land cultivated for crops that are replanted after each harvest like wheat, maize, and rice
; The percentage share of used land that is not arable or under permanent crops. This includes permanent meadows and pastures, forests and woodlands, built-on areas, roads, barren land, etc.
; The country's regional location, neighboring countries, and adjacent bodies of water.
; The name of the CIA World Factbook reference map on which a country may be found. The entry on Geographic coordinates may be helpful in finding some smaller countries.
; Exclusive fishing zone - while this term is not used in the LOS Convention, some States (e.g. the United Kingdom) have chosen not to claim an EEZ, but rather to claim jurisdiction over the living resources off their coast; in such cases, the term exclusive fishing zone is often used.
; territorial sea - the sovereignty of a coastal State extends beyond its land territory and internal waters to an adjacent belt of sea, described as the territorial sea in the LOS Convention (Part II); this sovereignty extends to the air space over the territorial sea as well as its underlying seabed and subsoil; every State has the right to establish the breadth of its territorial sea up to a limit not exceeding 12 nautical miles. A full and definitive definition can be found in the Law of the Sea (LOS) Convention.
; A country's mineral, petroleum, hydropower, and other resources of commercial importance.
; People per square kilometre, in 1999. At this time the world average was 14.42.;
; A brief description of the topography
ALTERNATIVE NAMES:
Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands, heard and mcdonald islands
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