Lord Howe Archipelago
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| Waters | Tasman Sea |
| Geographical location | 31 ° 33 ′ S , 159 ° 5 ′ E |
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| Number of islands | 28 |
| Main island | Lord Howe Island |
| Total land area | 56 km² |
| Residents | 382 (2016) |
The Lord Howe Island Group ( ger .: Lord Howe Iceland Group ) is an Australian , about 630 kilometers off the east coast of the Australian state of New South Wales situated islands in the Tasman Sea , a marginal sea of the Pacific Ocean .
geography
The archipelago includes in particular:
- the Lord Howe Island , the largest, eponymous and now only inhabited island of the group,
- the striking rock island Ball's Pyramid , about 20 kilometers southeast of the main island,
- the Roach Island and the Admiralty Islands northeast of the main island,
- the Mutton Bird Island and a half kilometers east of Lord Howe Island,
- the Gower Island , just off the southern tip of the main island
- the Blackburn island in the lagoon
- as well as some very small coral islands and isolated rocks.
history
The islands were discovered by chance on February 17, 1788 by the British navigator Henry Lidgbird Ball (1756-1818), commander of the sailing ship HMS Supply , on his crossing from Sydney to the Norfolk Island . The then uninhabited archipelago was baptized Ball after the British naval admiral Richard Howe (1726–1799), then also known as Lord Howe .
The rock island Ball's Pyramid and one of the two volcanic cones ( Mount Lidgbird ) on the main island are named after the discoverer of the islands .
natural reserve
In 1982 UNESCO put the archipelago on the World Heritage List under the name Lord Howe Island Group (reference number 186) . The sea around the islands is also protected separately by the Lord Howe Island Marine Park (480 square kilometers) established on February 26, 1999 .
See also
Web links
- Entry on the UNESCO World Heritage Center website ( English and French ).
- Further information on the archipelago (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics : Lord Howe Island (L) ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Accessed May 27, 2020.
Heritage: Royal Exhibition Building and Carlton Gardens (2004) | Sydney Opera House (2007) | Australian Prison Camps (2010) | Budj Bim cultural landscape (2019)
Natural Heritage: Great Barrier Reef (1981) | Lord Howe Archipelago (1982) | Gondwana Rainforests of Australia (1986) | Wet Tropics in Queensland (1988) | Shark Bay (1991) | Fraser Island (1992) | Riversleigh and Naracoorte Fossil Sites (1994) | Heard and McDonald Islands (1997) | Macquarie Island (1997) | Greater Blue Mountains Area (2000) | Purnululu National Park (2003) | Ningaloo Coast (2011)
Cultural / Natural Heritage: Kakadu National Park (1981) | Willandra Lake Region (1981) | Tasmanian Wilderness (1982) | Uluṟu Kata Tjuṯa National Park (1987)