Subantarctic Macquarie Island: Environment and Biology

by Patricia Selkirk, Rod Seppelt, David Selkirk

Book Overview

Macquarie Island, a speck of land rising from the Southern Ocean about 1,000 km south-east of Tasmania, is a wild and beautiful place. Declared a nature reserve in 1933, the island is of immense scientific interest, providing scientists with an opportunity to study unique geological features and to examine the special characteristics of a southern island ecosystem. The authors, drawing on their own extensive observations as well as on the published...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052107603X
• ISBN13: 9780521076036
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 9.6"