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Heard Island

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Heard Island  (hûrd)
An island of the southern Indian Ocean near the coast of Antarctica. First discovered by an American navigator in 1853, it was placed under Australian administration in 1947.


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Bouvet Island, for example, lies 4,430 km from Heard Island, but they share 30 percent of their moss species, 29 percent of their liverworts, and 32 percent of their lichens.
Wind highways: mosses, lichens travel along aerial paths by Milius, S. / Science News
The group successfully tested this idea from Heard Island off Antarctica in 1991 (SN: 1/26/91, p.
Of whales and ocean warming: a plan to sound out the sea's ... by Kaiser, Jocelyn / Science News
While many scientists have experimented with sending sounds through the ocean, Munk and his colleagues performed the most ambitious test of this concept two years ago, when they emitted a low-frequency hum from Heard Island, in the southern Indian Ocean (SN: 1/26/91, p.
Listening in on oceanic warming by Science News
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