Macquarie Island

Macquarie Island
Photo by Roman Bruehwiler.

Macquarie Island holds a remote, windswept landscape that is the only place on Earth where rocks from the Earth's mantle are actively exposed above sea level.

The active tectonic processes make it an important focus of geological study. The island and associated islets lie about halfway between Australia and Antarctica and are populated by huge congregations of penguins and seals. Over 850,000 Royal Penguins breed here yearly.

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Full Name
Macquarie Island
Unesco ID
629
Country
Australia
Inscribed
1997
Type
Natural
Criteria
7 8
Categories
Natural landscape - Volcanic and thermal
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1997 Inscribed

1992 Rejected

Interesting geologically but not of Universal Significance. Possibility of a wider nomination possibly with NZ islands?

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