Heard Island and McDonald Islands Dependency status

Heard Island and McDonald Islands > Government

Dependency status: territory of Australia; administered from Canberra by the Australian Antarctic Division of the Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts

Definition: This entry describes the formal relationship between a particular nonindependent entity and an independent state.

Source: CIA World Factbook - Unless otherwise noted, information in this page is accurate as of May 16, 2008

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