The World Heritage Centre and IUCN welcome the progress and preliminary results of the Macquarie Island Pest Eradication Planwhich show that no rodents have been detected since June 2011, that the ...

Macquarie Island (34 km long x 5 km wide) is an oceanic island in the Southern Ocean, 1,500 km south-east of Tasmania and approximately halfway between Australia and the Antarctic continent.

Letter Published: 18 February 1956 Living and Fossil Pollen from Macquarie Island JOHN BUNT Nature 177, 339 (1956) Cite this article ...

Australia is planning the world's biggest pest eradication program on the sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island, where thousands of mice and rabbits are damaging the world-heritage island.

They survived on the barren, elevated interior of the island in areas relatively inhospitable to predators. There are about 160,000 breeding pairs today, increasing by around 1% each year.

Australian scientists have developed the first environmental standards for fuel contamination in soils, for sub-Antarctic environments. These standards will help safeguard plants, invertebrates ...

The Macquarie Island research station. Picture: Chris Crerar less than 2 min read 12:00AMSeptember 14, 2016 ...

The remote Macquarie Island Marine Park, located off Australia’s southeastern coast between Tasmania and Antarctica in the Southern Ocean, is set to expand to 475,465 square kilometers (about ...

UNESCO World Heritage Centre32 COM 7B.9 Macquarie Island (Australia) (N629 rev) The World Heritage Committee, 1. Having examined Document WHC-08/32.COM/7B, 2. Recalling Decision 31 COM 7B.14, adopted ...