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- Macquarie Island is an exposed portion of the Macquarie Ridge and is located where the Australian Plate meets the Pacific Plate. The island lies close to the edge of the submerged microcontinent of Zealandia, but is not regarded as part of it, because the Macquarie Ridge is oceanic crust rather than continental crust.
- Macquarie Island is an exposed portion of the Macquarie Ridge and is located where the Australian Plate meets the Pacific Plate. The island lies close to the edge of the submerged microcontinent of Zealandia, but is not regarded as part of it, because the Macquarie Ridge is oceanic crust rather than continental crust.
- Macquarie Island Macquarie Island is a subantarctic island located in the Southern Ocean, approximately half way between Australia and Antarctica. Macquarie Island, or 'Macca' as it is generally referred to, is a Tasmanian State Reserve managed by the Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service.
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| UNESCO World Heritage Site | |
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| Location | Queensland, Australia |
| Includes | components:
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| Criteria | Natural: (vii), (viii), (ix), (x) |
| Reference | 486 |
| Inscription | 1988 (12th Session) |
| Area | 893,453 ha (3,449.64 sq mi) |
| Coordinates | 15°39′S144°58′E / 15.650°S 144.967°ECoordinates: 15°39′S144°58′E / 15.650°S 144.967°E |
Components in Queensland |
The Wet Tropics of Queensland is a UNESCOWorld Heritage Site which is in a narrow strip along the east coast of Queensland, Australia. It starts just north of Townsville and continues to just south of Cooktown, a distance of about 450 km (280 mi). This is an area of 894,420 ha (2,210,160 acres) in 730 separate blocks of land[1] which includes 41 national parks covering185,000 ha (457,145 acres).[2] About 80% of the site is tropical rainforest. It is interesting because it is very old forest, and is a living record of 415 million years of evolution, going back to Pangea and Gondwana. All of Australia's marsupials, and many of its other animals, evolved in tropical rainforests, and many of their closest surviving ancestors still live in the Wet Tropics of Queensland.
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Macquarie Island is a large island in the Southern Ocean. It is about 1,500 km (932 mi) south east of Tasmania, and about half way between Australia and Antarctica. The island became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1992. Macquarie Island is about 34 km (21 mi) long and 5 km (3 mi) wide.
- ↑'Wet Tropics Management Authority - Managing a World Heritage Area'. wettropics.gov.au. 2012. http://www.wettropics.gov.au/mwha/mwha_index.html. Retrieved 22 April 2012.
- ↑'Wet Tropics of Queensland - UNESCO World Heritage Centre'. whc.unesco.org. 2012. http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/486. Retrieved 22 April 2012.
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- 'Wet Tropics of Queensland - UNESCO World Heritage Centre'. whc.unesco.org. 2012. http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/486. Retrieved 22 April 2012.
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Macquarie Island - University Of Tasmania
