Territorial change
Open on the mapHeard and McDonald Islands: United Kingdom → Australia (cession)
1947 · Heard and McDonald Islands
What the records say
- When
- 1947
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Where
- Heard and McDonald Islands
- Coordinates
- 53.10° S, 73.50° E
- Process
- cession
- Type
- Cession (part yielded to other entity)
- Pop
- 0
- Area km2
- 412
- Gaining
- Australia
- Losing
- United Kingdom
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Heard Island and McDonald Islands
External territory of Australia
The Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands is an Australian external territory in the southern Indian Ocean. Discovered in the mid-19th century, the territory is a group of sub-Antarctic volcanic islands that lie on the Kerguelen Plateau. It is about 4000 kilometres (2500 mi) south-west of the Australian mainland and 1700 kilometres (1100 mi) north of Antarctica.
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The source
- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War ProjectCorrelates of War: free use with citation