McDonald Islands

An uninhabited, barren islands. Part of Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HIMI) which have been territories of Australia since 1947.
Unesco world heritage site since 1997.

The McDonald Islands are located 44 kilometres to the west of Heard Island at 53°02′20″S 72°36′04″E / 53.03889°S 72.60111°E / -53.03889; 72.60111. The islands are small and rocky and consist of McDonald Island (230 metres high), Flat Island (55 metres high) and Meyer Rock (170 metres high). They total approximately 2.5 square kilometres in area and, as with Heard Island, are surface exposures of the Kerguelen Plateau. The volcano on McDonald Island, after being dormant for 75,000 years, erupted in 1992 and has erupted again several times since, its most recent eruption being on 10 August 2005.