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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A volcanic island of Australia in the Tasman Sea east-northeast of Sydney. Discovered by the British in 1788, it was settled in 1834.
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Report to the Lord Howe Island Board on the future land use and land management of Lord Howe Island.
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Area: total: 7,686,850 sq km land: 7,617,930 sq km water: 68,920 sq km note: includes Lord Howe Island and Macquarie Island
Australia 2008
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The other endemic land birds are silver-eye Zosterops tephropleura, Lord Howe Island golden whistler Pachycephala pectoralis contempta, both reasonably abundant.
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Plodding north - we're 30 miles NE of Crowdy Head and a smidge north of Lord Howe Island, so this is the furthest north I have ever been in Berri in the Pacific but I hope we can keep breaking that little stat.
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There are four shield volcanoes among the twelve volcanic island World Heritage sites: 2,745 m snowbound Mt. Mawson on Heard Island, and the Subantarctic islands off southern New Zealand (705 m high) are climatically not very comparable, the subtropical Lord Howe Island seamount group off Australia (875 m high) and cool temperate Inaccessible Island in the south Atlantic (600 m high) have similarities but both are dormant and much eroded.
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Australiatotal: 7,686,850 sq km land: 7,617,930 sq km water: 68,920 sq km note: includes Lord Howe Island and Macquarie Island
Area 2008
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A biological survey of Lord Howe Island with recommendations for the conservation of the island's wildlife.
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Plodding north - we're 30 miles NE of Crowdy Head and a smidge north of Lord Howe Island, so this is the furthest north I have ever been in Berri in the Pacific but I hope we can keep breaking that little stat.
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Although most of Lord Howe Island is now protected, continued vigilance is needed to prevent the introduction and naturalization of exotic species.
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It is also worth noting that Lord Howe Island boasts the southernmost coral reef of any Pacific island, and that 4 percent of its fish taxa are shared only with Norfolk Island.
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