Wonders of Macquarie Island

Wondermondo 🢖 World 🢖 Wonders of Antarctica and Subantarctic islands 🢖 Wonders of Macquarie Island Territory Wonders of Macquarie Island   Highlights The small and remote Macquarie Island is a part of Australia. The most amazing wonders of Macquarie Island are: Unique geology of the island: this island is a raised block of oceanic crust. There are not many places in the […]

Wonders of Heard Island and McDonald Islands

Wondermondo 🢖 World 🢖 Wonders of Antarctica and Subantarctic islands 🢖 Wonders of Heard Island and McDonald Islands Territory Wonders of Heard Island and McDonald Islands   Highlights Heard Island and McDonald Islands (external territory of Australia) are some of the most remote islands in the world. Very few people have visited them but these islands represent a truly remarkable sights. Islands […]

Wonders of Coral Sea Islands Territory

Wondermondo 🢖 World 🢖 Wonders of Australia and Oceania 🢖 Wonders of Melanesia 🢖 Wonders of Coral Sea Islands Territory Territory Wonders of Coral Sea Islands Territory   Highlights Coral Sea Islands Territory is large sea area with scattered small islands, a possession of Australia. Just a few of these islands have vegetation, all islands are very low. Only Willis island is inhabited by […]

Wonders of Cocos Islands (Keeling Islands)

Wondermondo 🢖 World 🢖 Wonders of Australia and Oceania 🢖 Wonders of Australia 🢖 Wonders of Cocos Islands (Keeling Islands) Territory Wonders of Cocos Islands (Keeling Islands)   Highlights Cocos Islands or Keeling Islands are two low-lying corall atolls – Australian external territory. Map with the described wonders Top wonders of Cocos islands Biological wonders North Keeling natural forest In this forest lives endemic […]

Hugh’s Dale Waterfall

Unusual waterfall that is sedimenting tufa and creating rimstone pools.

The Dales of Christmas Island

Seven deep valleys formed by spring streams, closer to the sea turning into deep ravines cut in limestone. Above, at the discharge of springs they have flooded the forest dominated by enormous Tahitian chestnuts (Inocarpus fagifer). These pools in the forest form the largest freshwater basin on the island. Endemic plants.

Hosnies Spring mangroves

120,000 years old grove of mangroves some 24 – 37 m above the sea level. Mangrove ecosystems traditionally grow in shallow seawater – but here, as the sea level decreased, mangroves were fed by springs. This is unique case in the world. This 3,300 m² large area (core part, 202 ha in size) contains the oldest trees of Bruguiera gymnorrhiza and Bruguiera sexangula – 30 – 40 m tall, with trunk diameter up to 80 cm. There are mangroves of other species growing well above the sea level elsewhere on the island.

Christmas Island crab forest

The forest of Christmas Island is unique in the world due to dominant species – some 50 – 100 million red crabs (Gecarcoidea natalis) – clearing the forest floor of leaves and other organic matter. These crabs are endemic to Christmas Island. Once per year they migrate to the sea to lay their eggs, on the way blocking the roads and paths.

Wonders of Antarctica and Subantarctic islands

Wondermondo 🢖 World 🢖 Wonders of Antarctica and Subantarctic islands Territory Wonders of Antarctica and Subantarctic islands   Territories Antarctic and Sub-antarctic region include the continent of Antarctica and 14 island territories in Southern Hemisphere which have not been grouped with any other continent: Antarctica Antipodes Islands (New Zealand) Auckland Islands (New Zealand) Bounty Islands (New Zealand) Bouvet Island (Norway) […]

Norfolk Island subtropical rainforest

The last remnant (5 km²) of the unique Norfolk Island rainforest, protected by a national park. Here grow many unique endemic plants including the tallest tree fern of the world (Cyathea brownii, up to 20 m tall), Norfolk island palm (Rhopalostylis baueri), endemic orchid, and last natural stands of Norfolk pine (Araucaria heterophylla). Here lives also endemic Norfolk Parakeet (Cyanoramphus cookii), Norfolk Gerygone (Gerygone modesta), slender-billed White-eye (Zosterops tenuirostris), endemic land snails and others – in total some 50 endemic species of animals and plants.