Heard Island and McDonald Islands: Aggregated Conflict and Violence Events

ACLED provides weekly aggregated counts of political violence, civilian targeting, and demonstrations for Heard Island and McDonald Islands. The dataset consists of XLSX files organized by country-year and country-month summaries, updated through March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing temporal trends in 'political violence' event counts over multiple years
• Comparing 'civilian-targeting' incident frequencies across different months
• Monitoring 'demonstration' activity levels within the territory

Strengths

• ACLED-standardized event categories
• Weekly update frequency
• Temporal aggregation by month and year

Limitations

• Aggregated format lacks granular event-level detail
• Extremely remote and uninhabited territory likely results in sparse or zero-count records
• Full raw data requires external ACLED registration

Provenance

Source

Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED)

Collection Method

Aggregated from ACLED's primary event database

Time Range

Up to March 2026

Freshness

Weekly updates.

Geography

Heard Island and McDonald Islands