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Heard Island and McDonald Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The other active volcano in Australian territory is on McDonald Island: after being dormant for 75,000 years, it erupted in 1992 and has erupted again several times since, its most recent eruption being on 10 August 2005. |
| | 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. |
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