Macquarie Island Station

Macquarie Island Station
Subantarctic base
Macquarie Island Isthmus, looking south from the summit of Wireless Hill, overlooking the research station.
Nickname:  Macca
Macquarie Island Station Location of Macquarie Island Station, relative to Australia and New Zealand
Coordinates: 54°29′56″S 158°56′20″E / 54.498889°S 158.938889°E / -54.498889; 158.938889
Country	Australia
State	Tasmania
LGA	Huon Valley Council
Administered by	Australian Antarctic Division
Established	1911 (1911)
Named for	Lachlan Macquarie
Population
• Summer	40
• Winter	16
Time zone	UTC+10:00 (AEST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+11:00 (AEDT)
UN/LOCODE	AU MQI
Active times	All year-round
Status	Operational
Activities	List Meteorology Biology
Facilities[1]	List Accommodation Communal mess Doctor's surgery Stores Workshops Communications Power generation facilities Research and scientific buildings (geophysics, biology, upper atmosphere physics and meteorology 30 separate buildings
Website	antarctica.gov.au

The Macquarie Island Station, commonly called Macca,^[2] is a permanent Australian subantarctic research base on Macquarie Island, situated in the Southern Ocean and located approximately halfway between mainland Australia and Antarctica, managed by the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD). The station lies at the base of Wireless Hill, between two bays on the isthmus at the northern end of the island.

The island and its surrounding waters are administered as a nature reserve by the Tasmanian Government Parks and Wildlife Service. In 1997 the island was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as a site of major geoconservation significance, being the only place on Earth where rocks from the Earth's mantle are actively exposed above sea-level.^[2][3]