# External Uninhabited Australian Territories ## Ashmore and Cartier Islands **Territory of Ashmore and Cartier Islands** Four low-lying tropical islands in two separate reefs located in the Indian Ocean 320 km northwest of the coast of [[Australia]] and 144 km south of the Indonesian island of Rote. ![[AshmoreCartierLocation.svg|500]] ## Coral Sea Islands **Coral Sea Islands Territory** A group of small and mostly uninhabited tropical islands and reefs in the Coral Sea, northeast of Queensland, [[Australia]]. Willis Island is the only populated island, with 4 people in 2018. The territory covers 780,000 km², which is mostly ocean, and extends east and south from the outer edge of the Great Barrier Reef. ![[CoralSeaIslandsLocation.svg|500]] ## Heard Island and McDonald Islands **Territory of Heard Island and McDonald Islands** A volcanic group of mostly barren Antarctic islands, about two-thirds the way from Madagascar to Antarctica. The overall size of the group is 372 km². It has the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code *HM*. ![[HeardMcDonaldIslandsLocation.svg|500]]