(CNN)-- Efforts to remove cats from Macquarie Island, a sub-Antarctic island and World Heritage Site ... that nearly 40 percent of the whole island area had changed, with almost 20 percent ...

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Macquarie Island (34 km long x 5 km wide) is an oceanic island in the Southern Ocean, lying 1,500 km south-east of Tasmania and approximately halfway between Australia and the Antarctic continent. The ...