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Australia to create giant marine reserve
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AUSTRALIA plans to create the world's largest fully protected
marine reserve, announcing yesterday that it had mapped out a giant
park free of fishing and exploitation in its remote, sub-antarctic
waters.
The government said the new 16 million acre reserve would be
created around the rugged Heard Island and McDonald Islands group,
2,790 miles south-west of the mainland and 620 miles north of
Antarctica.
The Australian territory of Heard and McDonald islands is the only
sub-antarctic island group with an intact ecosystem that has not been
tainted by foreign species introduced directly by man.
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