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MACQUARIE

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 268 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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MACQUARIE , a

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BRITISH

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ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island in the

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South Pacific Ocean, in 540 49' S. and 159° 49' E . It is about 20 M.

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long, and covered with a grassy vegetation, with some trees or shrubs in the sheltered places which afford

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food to a

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PARROT (according to Skeat, from Fr. Perrot or Pies-rot, the diminutive of the proper name Pierrel)

parrot of the genus Cyanorhamphus, allied to those of the

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Auckland Islands . Although it has no settled

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POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population, Macquarie is constantly visited by sailors in quest of the

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SEALS

seals which abound in its

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WATERS, TERRITORIAL

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