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Heard Island and McDonald Islands
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Heard Island and McDonald Islands is an uninhabited external territory of Australia in the remote southern Indian Ocean, governed directly from Canberra under Australian sovereignty. With no permanent population, it has no independent politics or governance; its administration falls under the Australian Antarctic Division. Its significance is environmental and scientific rather than strategic, and it is protected as a UNESCO World Heritage site for its pristine sub-Antarctic ecosystems and active volcanism.