{"id":331754,"date":"2025-04-04T16:58:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T11:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/?p=331754"},"modified":"2025-04-05T09:07:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T03:37:15","slug":"heard-island-and-mcdonald-islands-himi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/heard-island-and-mcdonald-islands-himi\/","title":{"rendered":"Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HIMI)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News<\/strong>: The Heard and McDonald Islands have been in the news due to their unexpected inclusion in the list of trade partners subject to the 10% baseline tariff imposed by former U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s administration. <strong>Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HIMI)<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>About Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HIMI)<\/h2>\n<figure style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/2\/2e\/Heard_Island_and_McDonald_Islands_map.png\/330px-Heard_Island_and_McDonald_Islands_map.png\" alt=\"Heard Island and McDonald Islands - Wikipedia\" width=\"330\" height=\"275\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wikipedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>They are situated in the southwest Indian Ocean, southwest of Perth (Australia).<\/li>\n<li>These islands are an Australian territory, transferred from the United Kingdom in 1947.<\/li>\n<li>The islands lie within the <em>&#8216;Furious 50s<\/em>,&#8217; a region of the Southern Ocean known for its persistently strong and harsh winds.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Geographical Features<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>The McDonald Islands are small and rocky.<\/li>\n<li>Heard Island is much larger, with 80% of its surface covered in ice.<\/li>\n<li>Heard Island features <em>Big Ben<\/em>, a massive mountain range, with Mawson Peak as its highest point and an active volcano.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Wildlife<\/strong>: The islands support large breeding populations of elephant seals, fur seals, petrels, albatrosses, and penguins.<\/li>\n<li>Heard Island is home to endemic species, including the <em>Heard Island Cormorant<\/em> and a subspecies of sheathbill known as the<em> Heard Island Sheathbill<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: The Heard and McDonald Islands have been in the news due to their unexpected inclusion in the list of trade partners subject to the 10% baseline tariff imposed by former U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s administration. Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HIMI) About Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HIMI) They are situated in the southwest&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/heard-island-and-mcdonald-islands-himi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Heard Island and McDonald Islands (HIMI)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10366,"featured_media":331862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,12039,11211],"tags":[11872,10595],"class_list":["post-331754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-knolls","category-places-in-news","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-hindustan-times","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Heard_Island_and_McDonald_Islands_map.png?fit=330%2C275&ssl=1","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10366"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}