A small number of people work on the island over winter, but in summer the population tends to swell and can reach up to about 25. Hundreds of king penguins raising their young on isolated ...

The story of the Macquarie Island ecosystem may remind you of the song about the woman who swallowed a fly. ... They, of course, bred like rabbits. Despite being eaten by both cats and people, ...

Macquarie Island located ... The Australian Antarctic Division has maintained a base on the island since 1948 which is inhabited by between 20 to 40 people at any one time, the island's only ...

Justine Thompson has investigated crooks and crashes on Sydney's beat, but on remote Macquarie Island, halfway to Antarctica, she had 50-knot winds, orcas, major refuelling operations and people ...

“The thing about Macquarie Island is, it really gets to people,’’ Arthur explains. “I haven’t been there since 2010, and since that time I’ve thought about Macquarie Island every week, ...

Few people who visit the sub-Antarctic islands understand in advance just how rough the Southern Ocean can be. ... Macquarie Island also has a rich variety of albatross species, although expedition ...

Like many people, Macquarie Island has a love/hate relationship with its cats. In recent years, the native birds of Macquarie have been threatened by feral cats that have flourished on the island ...

The division had planned to send 12 to 14 people to Macquarie Island for the coming summer and had already started making arrangements for winter 2017 which will be adjusted. Share.

The island is part of Australia and is governed by Tasmania. Macquarie Island became a Tasmanian State Reserve in 1978 and was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1997.

Macquarie Island offers a dazzling range of flora and fauna, finds traveller-scientist Philip Game. More Travel HAMILTON ISLAND DRAWS ON INSTAGRAM LADY MUSGRAVE ISLAND THE HUNTER VALLEY STATION ...

These standards will help safeguard plants, invertebrates, microbes and soil function, in places like Macquarie Island. The Environmental Quality Guideline Values provide clean-up targets for ...

Ridding Macquarie Island of pests pays off as seabirds come back from the brink—but recovery has just begun. by Jeremy Bird, Justine Shaw and Richard Fuller, The Conversation ...