🌿 Macquarie Island

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Macquarie Island is a subantarctic island in the south-western Pacific Ocean, about halfway between Tasmania and Antarctica. It has been governed as a part of Tasmania, Australia, since 1880. It became a Tasmanian State Reserve in 1978 and was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997.

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Macquarie Island is a natural World Heritage site in Australia, in Oceania. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Macquarie Island was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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