Fun fact 1 about Macquarie Island
island
Macquarie Island was discovered by Frederick Hasselborough on 11 July 1810 while he was searching for sealing grounds.
Macquarie Island
Australia
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island
Macquarie Island
Australia
Area
128 km²
Location
Australia
Macquarie Island is a subantarctic island in the south-western Pacific Ocean, about halfway between Tasmania and Antarctica. It has been governed as a part of Tasmania, Australia, since 1880. It became a Tasmanian State Reserve in 1978 and was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997.
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Photo: NASA Earth Observatory image by Wanmei Liang, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey · Public Domain