Needle Island
| Needle Island | ||
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| Waters | Indian Ocean | |
| Archipelago | Heard and McDonald Islands | |
| Geographical location | 53 ° 2 ′ S , 72 ° 35 ′ E | |
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| Residents | uninhabited | |
Needle Iceland (literally translated from English Needle Island ) is an irregularly shaped, cliff-like island in the archipelago Heard and McDonald Islands in the southern Indian Ocean . It is located 300 m west of McDonald Island in the group of McDonald Islands .
Scientists from the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions mapped it in 1948 and gave it the descriptive name because it is reminiscent of a rock needle .
Web links
- Needle Island in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Needle Island on geographic.org (English)