Lord howe island australia
Lord howe island australia
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Lord Howe Island
Island in the Tasman Sea, in New South Wales, Australia
For the atoll in the Solomon Islands, see Lord Howe Atoll.
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Lord Howe Island (; formerly Lord Howe's Island; Norfuk: Lord Howe Ailen) is an irregularly crescent-shaped volcanic remnant in the Tasman Sea between Australia and New Zealand, part of the Australian state of New South Wales.
It lies 600 km (370 mi; 320 nmi) directly east of mainland Port Macquarie, 780 km (480 mi; 420 nmi) northeast of Sydney, and about 900 km (560 mi; 490 nmi) southwest of Norfolk Island.
It is about 10 km (6.2 mi) long and between 0.3 and 2.0 km (0.19 and 1.24 mi) wide with an area of 14.55 km2 (3,600 acres), though just 3.98 km2 (980 acres) of that comprise