Heard Island: Southern Ocean sentinel.
Chipping Norton: Surrey Beatty & Sons Pty Ltd, 2006.
Quarto, paperback, 270 pp. colour photographs, maps, other illustrations.
Heard Island lies 1,500 kilometres from Antarctica, 4,000 kilometres from Australia and 3,750 kilometres from Africa. There is a wealth of information on the physical environment and the plants and animals on Heard Island buried in books, sealers' logbooks, scientific papers, climbing journals and geographical magazines. This book brings these disparate sources together in 15 review chapters with associated appendices.
