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	Macquarie Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He claimed Macquarie Island for Britain and annexed it to the colony of New South Wales in 1810.
		Bellingshausen landed on the island on November 28, 1820, defined its geographical position and traded his rum and food for Macquarie Island's fauna with the sealers.
		In 1933 the authorities declared the island a wildlife sanctuary, and eventually transferred it to the Commonwealth of Australia under the administration of the Australian Antarctic Territory on December 26, 1947.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Macquarie_Island (505 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Macquarie Island
		The island was claimed by Britain and annexed to the colony of New South Wales in 1810.
		The island was transferred to Tasmania in 1890 and leased to Joseph Hatch in 1902.
		In 1933, the island was declared a wildlife sanctuary and was eventually transferred to Australia under the administration of Australian Antarctic Territory in 1947.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Macquarie_Island (311 words)

	Macquarie Island -- Geology
		Macquarie Island probably began as a spreading ridge under the sea with the formation of new oceanic crust somewhere between 11 and 30 million years ago.
		Macquarie Island provides evidence of the rock types found at great depths in the earth's crust but also for plate tectonics and continental drift, the geological processes which have dominated the earth's surface for many millions of years.
		Macquarie Island is totally oceanic in origin all rock units having formed on or beneath the ocean floor.
	www.parks.tas.gov.au /macquarie/geology.html (2052 words)

	Macquarie Island
		Macquarie Island, located approximately 1200 km southwest of New Zealand in the Southern Ocean (see below), forms the apex of the Macquarie Ridge Complex (MRC), a system of ridges and troughs along the currently active Australian-Pacific oceanic transform plate boundary between the Alpine fault of New Zealand and the Australian-Pacific-Antarctic triple junction.
		The island exposes the eastern side of the ~5 km high, ~50 km wide submarine ridge and lies ~4.5 km east of the major active plate boundary fault zone.
		Macquarie Island represents a globally unique opportunity to examine in situ oceanic crust and an active oceanic transform plate boundary as it is the only subaerial exposure of non-plume-related oceanic crust that still lies within the basin in which it formed.
	www.es.mq.edu.au /ndaczko/Web/MIsland/intro.html (294 words)

	Macquarie Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Part of the state of Tasmania, it is 1500 kilometres south east of the island of Tasmania and 1300 kilometres north of the Antarctic continent.
		Macquarie Island, or "Macca" as it is generally referred to, is 34 kilometres long and 5 kilometres wide at its widest point.
		The island is the exposed crest of the undersea Macquarie Ridge, raised to its present position where the Indo-Australian tectonic plate meets the Pacific plate.
	www.nides.bc.ca /Assignments/Scavenge/MacquarieIsland.htm (338 words)

	Heard Island and McDonald Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		The islands are a territory of Australia administered from Hobart by the Australian Antarctic Division of the Australian Department of the Environment and Heritage.
		Peter Kemp, a British sealer (seal hunter), was the first person thought to have seen the island on November 27, 1833, from the brig Magnet during a voyage from Kerguelen to the Antarctic and was believed to have entered the island in his 1833 chart.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heard_Island_and_McDonald_Islands (682 words)

	Island Life - Macquarie Island
		Macquarie Island is a tiny fragment of land between Tasmania and Antarctica in the Southern Ocean.
		Southern elephant seals are one of the longest monitored animals on the island.
		To understand more about how elephant seals interact with their ocean environment, work from Macquarie Island is tracking individual seals when they leave the island to feed and measuring how deeply they dive and which areas of the Southern Ocean they're targeting.
	www.abc.net.au /nature/island/ep1 (438 words)

	World Heritage: Macquarie Island
		The plateau scarps are most spectacular at the southern end of the island and along the west coast where the relentless pounding by the Southern Ocean has cut a myriad of rugged bays and coves, fringed with sea stacks and reefs.
		Among the most aesthetically appealing sights of the island are the vast congregations of wildlife, particularly penguins, on suitable parts of the coastal terrace, especially during breeding seasons.
		The breeding population of royal penguins on Macquarie Island is estimated at over 850,000 pairs - one of the greatest concentrations of sea birds in the world.
	www.deh.gov.au /heritage/worldheritage/sites/macq (915 words)

	Ocean Basins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		MacQuarie Island - Oceanic crust at the Surface.
		Macquarie Island is one of Australia’s subantarctic islands and is situated half way between Tasmania and Antarctica.
		The reason that geologists love Macquarie Island is that it is composed of ophiolites – yes those oceanic crust and mantle rocks.
	www.odp.usyd.edu.au /odp_CD/computer/concepts/ozex/macq.html (319 words)

	Macquarie Island: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The island of tasmania, an australian state, is located 240 km (150 miles) south of the eastern portion of the continent, being separated from it by the bass...
		Colonel lachlan macquarie (31 january, 1762-1 july, 1824), british military officer and colonial administrator, served as governor of new south...
		An island is any piece of land smaller than a continent and larger than a rock, that is completely surrounded by water....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/macquarie_island.htm (815 words)

	Record cold on Macquarie Island
		Macquarie Island's mean daily maximum temperature for July is 4.9°C. The highest temperature recorded in July is 8.3°C (in 1973).
		However Tim James, the Bureau's senior observer on Macquarie Island this winter, reports that "all expeditioners are fine and in good spirits, and bid a cheery hello to family and friends".
		Macquarie Island is actually part of Tasmania, despite being over 1500 kilometres to the southeast of Hobart.
	www.bom.gov.au /announcements/media_releases/tas/20030703.shtml (366 words)

	Macquarie Island - a report of an short visit
		In mid November 1989, JRC visited Macquarie Island for four days during the turn-around of the summer resupply voyage and collected living plant material and herbarium voucher specimens from the northern quarter of the island.
		The weather on Macquarie Island is both uniform and unpredicable, or uniform in its unpredictability.
		As a geologically new island, and a subantarctic one at that, the flora of Macquarie is not particularly diverse.
	www.anbg.gov.au /projects/macquarie/macq-report.html (2047 words)

	Tasmania Wilderness and Wildlife
		The island is buffeted by winds – the ‘roaring forties’ and ‘furious fifties’ – with typical speeds of 20 to 30 knots, rising to 70-knot cyclonic winds.
		Macquarie Island’s weather is mostly cold, windy, wet and cloudy.
		The western side of Macquarie Island is exposed to the winds, but a high north-south plateau blocks the westerlies and provides shelter on the east of the island for four million penguins and thousands of elephant seals.
	www.discovertasmania.com.au /home/index.cfm?SiteID=127&subsiteid=599 (347 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Antipodes Subantarctic Islands tundra (AA1101)
		Macquarie Island is geologically distinct and lies on the Indo-Australian and Pacific Plate boundary.
		Macquarie Island has a central rolling plateau covering most of the land area, with a narrow coastal strip surrounding some parts of the island.
		The Macquarie Island population of southern elephant seals is intensively studied by the Antarctic Wildlife Research Unit at the University of Tasmania, and is known to be declining at about 2 percent per annum.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/aa/aa1101_full.html (2704 words)

	Protected Areas Programme - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Copson, G.R. An annotated atlas of the vascular flora of Macquarie Island.
		Copson, G.R. The status of the fl-browed and grey-headed albatrosses on Macquarie Island.
		Griffin, B.J. Igneous and metamorphic petrology of lavas and dykes of the Macquarie Island ophiolite complex.
	www.unep-wcmc.org /protected_areas/data/wh/macquari.html (3038 words)

	Journey across the Vast Southern Ocean - MESA
		Macquarie Island is situated 1500 km south-south-east of Tasmania.
		Famous for its geology, Macquarie Island is a rare uplifted portion of the seabed at the edge of two tectonic plates.
		Macquarie Island is a national park and is managed by the Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service.
	www.mesa.edu.au /habitat/antarctic02.asp (479 words)

	Plants of Macquarie Island
		The island was discovered in 1810 when its natural resources were intensively exploited by seekers of abundant animal fur and oil until well into the 1920's.
		Today the island itself is classed as a Tasmanian Nature Reserve with Tasmanian park management and Tasmanian Rangers but the research station on a narrow isthmus at the northern end is maintained and run by the Commonwealth Antarctic Division and is a successful example of Commonwealth-State co-operation.
		The most striking feature of Macquarie Island is the abundance of seabirds - Skuas, Shearwaters, Petrels, Prions, Albatross and of course, penguins - and the mammal fauna, all of which contribute to the nutrients in the soil.
	www.apstas.com /sgaptas-treas3.htm (524 words)

	TerraNature \| New Zealand Ecology - Antipodes Island parakeet
		Antipodes Island is also the only home of Reischek's parakeet Cyanoramphus erythrotis hochstetteri, which is now classified as the sole surviving subspecies of the extinct Macquarie Island red-crowned parakeet C.
		Macquarie Island is infested with cats, mice and ship rats which have been mainly responsible for the extinction of the island's parakeet.
		Weka Gallirallus australis scotti were introduced from New Zealand in the mid-1800s as food for sealers, and contributed to the extinction of the Macquarie Island parakeet and the Pacific banded rail.
	www.terranature.org /parakeetAntipodes.htm (1384 words)

	International Schools CyberFair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Macquarie Island is quite small, in comparison to the ocean that surrounds it.
		The location of Macquarie Island is in the cross section of Tasmania, New Zealand and Antrctica at a latitude of 54 degrees 37 minutes S and longitude 158 degrees 54 minutes E. The Macquarie Island community was made up of Sealers and Sailors, with Scientist being the more recent arrivals on the island.
		Macquarie Island was isolated and largely unvisited until the 19th century, when the Sealers and Sailors visited the island and exploit the large population of seals and penguins for their oil.
	www.gsn.org /GSH/CF/_cfm/ViewNarrative.cfm?narr=45 (2161 words)

	Flora of Macquarie Island Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Copson, G.R. (1984) 'An annotated atlas of the vascular flora of Macquarie Island'.
		Seppelt, R.D. 'Bryoflora of Macquarie Island.' Tasmanian Naturalist 78:13-14.
		Seppelt, R.D. 'Lichens of Macquarie Island.' Tasmanian Naturalist 78:15-16.
	www.anbg.gov.au /library/macquari.html (310 words)

	Macquarie Island Marine Park Management Plan 2001 - 2008 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Macquarie Island and its associated islets were listed in the Register of the National Estate in 1980.
		Macquarie Island is one of few terrestrial habitats in the Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean for marine mammals and seabirds which require land for breeding and moulting.
		Consistent with the strategic objectives for the Macquarie Island Marine Park, the Marine Park is assigned by the Plan to the IUCN Protected Area Management Category of habitat/species management area (category IV).
	www.deh.gov.au /coasts/mpa/macquarie/plan (1265 words)

	Lachlan Macquarie
		Lachlan Macquarie was born on the tiny island of Ulva, in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland and grew up on the nearby larger island of Mull.
		The colony's first military governor (previous holders of the office had all been navy men), Macquarie was able to draw on his experience as a staff officer in the raising and organisation of colonial revenue-measures in this area included the introduction of coinage (1813) and the establishment of the colony's first bank (1817).
		Macquarie's resignation was accepted in 1821 and he sailed for England in 1822.
	members.tripod.com /virtaus4/volume6/misc/lachlan_macquarie.htm (636 words)

	Subantarctic Macquarie Island - Cambridge University Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Macquarie Island, a speck of land rising from the Southern Ocean about 1,000 km south-east of Tasmania, is a wild and beautiful place.
		Declared a nature reserve in 1933, the island is of immense scientific interest, providing scientists with an opportunity to study unique geological features and to examine the special characteristics of a southern island ecosystem.
		A brief description of the island and its setting and the history of its discovery and subsequent human occupation precedes more detailed accounts of the geomorphology and quaternary history of the island, its vegetation, avifauna, mammals, microbiology and marine and freshwater environments.
	www.cambridge.org /catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521266335 (210 words)

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		Lachlan Macquarie was born on an island in the Scottish Hebrides in 1762, joined the Army at 14 and spent several years in India.
		Macquarie was married twice, once briefly to a woman called Jane who died of tuberculosis, then to a distant cousin named Elizabeth Campbell.
		Macquarie Island is 1500 km south south east of Tasmanian, one of Australia's sub-Antarctic territories and occupying a place on the World Heritage List.
	www.suite101.com /print_article.cfm/tasmania_apple_isle/89292 (485 words)

	Island Life - Macquarie Island - Behind the scenes
		The ocean around Macquarie Island supports an enormous amount of life, mammals and birds which spend most of their lives roving the sea where they feed.
		So this small island for a short period is like a bottleneck where thousands of seals and millions of penguins are concentrated.
		Macquarie is truly a special little island and I certainly count myself as privileged to have had the opportunity to spend time there.
	www.abc.net.au /nature/island/ep1/behind.htm (852 words)

	Australian Antarctic Division - Macquarie Island
		Macquarie Island is a sub-antarctic island located in the Southern Ocean at a latitude of 54° 30' south, 158° 57' east.
		World Heritage: In 1996 Macquarie Island was nominated by the Australian Government for inscription on the World Heritage Register, mainly for its unique geological features.
		There are no trees on the island although the island is covered in various types of vegetation.
	www.aad.gov.au /?casid=7151 (364 words)

	Lachlan Macquarie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Lachlan Macquarie was born on the island of Ulva in the Inner Hebrides, Scotland on 31 January 1762.
		His father, Lachlan Macquarie, was a cousin of the sixteenth and last chieftain of the clan MacQuarrie, while Macquarie's mother, Margaret was the only sister of Murdoch Maclaine, chieftain of Lochbuy in Mull.
		Macquarie returned to England in 1803 to attend to financial matters, but in 1805 he returned to India where he was promoted to lieutenant-colonel of the 73rd Regiment.
	www.holidaymull.org /history-geology/lachlan-macquarie.htm (1019 words)

	Macquarie Island - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Macquarie Island, island situated in the south Pacific Ocean.
		Between 1787 and 1852 about 150,000 convicts were transported to eastern Australia; of these, 80,000 went to New South Wales and most of the...
		Tasmania, state in south-eastern Australia, consisting of the island of Tasmania some 240 km (150 mi) south of the mainland of continental Australia,...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Macquarie_Island.html (119 words)

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