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Like Macquarie Island, both groups are part of the state of Tasmania. The Bishop and Clerk Islets mark the southernmost point of Australia (excluding the Australian Antarctic Territory). In the 19th century a phantom island named "Emerald Island" was believed to lie south of Macquarie Island. Simplified geological map
The Macquarie Island Marine Park (previously known as the Macquarie Island Commonwealth Marine Reserve) is an Australian marine park surrounding Macquarie Island in the southwest Pacific. The marine park covers an area of 475,465 km 2 (183,578 sq mi) and is assigned IUCN category IV.
Macquarie Island Currie harbour on King Island, 2007. Tasmania is a large island state off the south-east coast of mainland Australia. The main island of Tasmania ...
The Macquarie Island Station, commonly called Macca, [2] is a permanent Australian subantarctic research base on Macquarie Island, situated in the Southern Ocean and located approximately halfway between Mainland Australia and Antarctica, managed by the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD).
Macquarie Island (433 m or 1,421 ft) is the furthest south and the coldest. Where present, soils are mainly boggy peats, up to 8 m (26.2 ft) deep in flat areas. None of the islands are inhabited although there are ongoing research projects including a permanent base of the Australian Antarctic Division on Macquarie Island.
The expedition produced the first map of Macquarie Island. The scientific work of the expedition covered the fields of geology, biology, meteorology, terrestrial magnetism and oceanography; [189] the vast amounts of data filled multiple reports published over a period of 30 years.
The Bishop and Clerk Islets are a 60-hectare (150-acre) group of islets, lying 33 kilometres (21 mi) south of Macquarie Island in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. They are, with Macquarie Island, part of the Australian state of Tasmania. [2] [3] The group consists of Bishop Islet, 24 smaller islets, and various rocks and reefs. Bishop Islet has ...
The 1,600 kilometres (990 mi) [4] long Macquarie fault zone (also known as the Macquarie Ridge, its gazetted name since 2015, [7] the Macquarie Ridge complex or historically as the Macquarie Fault) [Notes 1] is a major right lateral-moving transform fault along the seafloor of the south Pacific Ocean which runs from New Zealand southwestward towards the Macquarie triple junction.