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世界遗产档案
赫德岛和麦克唐纳群岛位于南大洋，距南极洲约1700公里，离佩思(Perth)西南部约4100公里。作为亚南极唯一的活火山群岛，这两个岛屿打开了“地球心底之窗”，为人类提供了观察正在进行的地貌变化过程和冰河运动的机会。对于赫德岛和麦克唐纳群岛与众不同的保护价值在于，该群岛保留了世界罕见的早期岛屿生态系统，它从未受到过来自本生态系统外的生物影响，也没有受到过人类的影响。
UNESCO 官方中文展开英文原文
Heard Island and McDonald Islands are located in the Southern Ocean, approximately 1,700 km from the Antarctic continent and 4,100 km south-west of Perth. As the only volcanically active subantarctic islands they ‘open a window into the earth’, thus providing the opportunity to observe ongoing geomorphic processes and glacial dynamics. The distinctive conservation value of Heard and McDonald – one of the world’s rare pristine island ecosystems – lies in the complete absence of alien plants and animals, as well as human impact.