Mount Aubert de la Rue

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Mount Aubert de la Rue (53°1′S, 73°22′E) is an ice-free hill, 125 m, standing at the south end and surmounting the low isthmus that connects Laurens Peninsula with the main mass of Heard Island. First charted and named by Edgar Aubert de la Rue, French geologist aboard the whale catcher of the island in January 1929. Later surveyed by the ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) in 1948.

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