Judge and Clerk Islands

Judge and Clerk Islands
Drawing on a nautical chart from 1950
Waters	South pacific
Geographical location	54 ° 22 ′  S , 159 ° 0 ′  E Coordinates: 54 ° 22 ′  S , 159 ° 0 ′  E
Number of islands	21st
Main island	Judge Island
Total land area	0.02 km²
Residents	uninhabited

The uninhabited Judge and Clerk Islands ( English Judge and Clerk Islets ) are a chain of 21 small and tiny rocky islands that extend from north to south over a length of around 1.65 km. The total land area is 2  hectares (0.02 km²), the main island is Judge Island . The islands are located about eight miles north of North Head , the northern tip of Macquarie Island , in the southern Pacific Ocean . Like Macquarie Island , they belong administratively to Tasmania , Australia . The islands are located in the marine reserve of the 162,000 km² Macquarie Island Commonwealth Marine Reserve and the Macquarie Island Nature Reserve , which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site , where they form a Special Management Area . The islands are comparatively remote; there are therefore no introduced animal species on them.

See also

• Bishop and Clerk Islands

literature

• DJ Lugg, GW Johnstone, BJ Griffin: The Outlying Islands of Macquarie Island . In: The Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers (Ed.): The Geographical Journal . tape 144 , no. 2 , July 1978, ISSN  0016-7398 , p. 277–287 (English, online [PDF; 5.5 MB ]).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Macquarie Island World Heritage Area - Location. In: Parks & Wildlife Service Tasmania. Tasmanian Government - Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment, accessed September 20, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Parks and Wildlife Service (Ed.): Macquarie Island Nature Reserve and World Heritage Area Management Plan 2006 . Tasmanian Government - Department of Tourism, Arts and the Environment, Hobart 2006, ISBN 0-7246-6405-X , Section 3.11.2 Alien Fauna , p. 37 (English, online [PDF; 2.2 MB ; accessed on May 13, 2017]).