The Heard Island and McDonald Islands — which consist of McDonald Island, Flat Island and Meyer Rock — are located in the Indian Ocean, about halfway between Australia and South Africa, and ...

The Heard Island and McDonald Islands — which consist of McDonald Island, Flat Island and Meyer Rock — are located in the Indian Ocean, about halfway between Australia and South Africa, and ...

The Trump administration hit the remote Australian territory Heard Island and McDonald Islands with a 10% tariff, but no humans inhabit the islands.

Heard Island and the McDonald Islands, which were named a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1997 and represent Earth’s only volcanically active sub-Antarctic islands, were slapped with a 10 percent ...

The global tariffs Trump announced this week include remote territories like Heard and McDonald Islands in the Indian Ocean that don't actually have human populations. Here's what to know about them.

Heard Island and McDonald Islands are located in a remote part of the Indian Ocean, some 1,000 miles north of Antarctica and 2,400 miles southeast of Australia.

Since the first landing on Heard Island in 1855, there have been only approximately 240 shore-based visits to the island, and only two landings on McDonald Island (in 1971 and 1980).

According to a tariffs list shared by the White House on X, the uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands — an external territory of Australia — are not exempt from the 10% tariff on goods.

Heard Island and McDonald Islands, an Antarctic territory of Australia, is on the list of reciprocal tariffs — as is a remote isle near Greenland.

While Vladimir Putin’s Russia was left out of the long list, Trump slapped 10% tariffs on Heard Island and McDonald Islands, a mostly barren, tiny outpost largely populated by penguins.

President Donald Trump announced a 10% tariff on the Heard and McDonald Islands. A remote Australian territory, the islands do not have any permanent human residents. They do, however, have ...