The Trump administration has placed a 10 percent “ reciprocal tariff ” on the Heard and McDonald Islands, which are external territories of Australia near Antarctica, home to penguins, seals and glaciers.

Donald Trump has included a group of barren, uninhabited volcanic islands near Antarctica in his list of countries and territories to be hit by new tariffs. Heard Island and McDonald Islands, which form an external territory of Australia in the southern Indian Ocean,

Some of the more sparsely populated territories in the world that do little trade with the United States have been caught up in the trade war.