Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Heard and McDonald Islands' has mentioned 'Wetland' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
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| Heard Island has a number of small wetland sites scattered around its coastal perimeter, including areas of wetland vegetation, lagoons or lagoon complexes, rocky shores and sandy shores, including the Elephant Spit. | WIKI |
| Many of these wetland areas are separated by active glaciers. | WIKI |
| Some wetland areas have been recorded on McDonald Island but, due to substantial volcanic activity since the last landing was made in 1980, their present extent is unknown. | WIKI |
| The HIMI wetland is listed on the Directory of Important Wetlands in Australia and, in a recent analysis of Commonwealth-managed wetlands, was ranked highest for nomination under the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat (Ramsar Convention) as an internationally important wetland. | WIKI |
| Six wetland types have been identified from HIMI covering approximately 1860 ha: coastal xe2x80x98pool complexxe2x80x99 (237 ha); inland xe2x80x98pool complexxe2x80x99 (105 ha); vegetated seeps mostly on recent glaciated areas (18 ha); glacial lagoons (1103 ha); non-glacial lagoons (97ha); Elephant Spit (300 ha) plus some coastal areas. | WIKI |
| The wetland vegetation occurs in the xe2x80x98wet mixed herbfieldxe2x80x99 and xe2x80x98coastal biotic vegetationxe2x80x99 communities described above. | WIKI |
| The wetlands provide important breeding and feeding habitat for a number of Antarctic and subantarctic wetland animals. | WIKI |
| These include the southern elephant seal and macaroni, gentoo, king and eastern rockhopper penguins, considered to be wetland species under the Ramsar Convention. | WIKI |