Mount Aubert de la Rue
Mount Aubert de la Rue is an ice-free hill, 125 metres high, standing at the south end and surmounting the low Fidelia Isthmus that connects Laurens Peninsula with the main mass of Heard Island.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 125 metres
- Description: hill in Heard Island
- Also known as: “Mount Aubert” and “Mount de la Rue”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount Andree and Mount Drygalski.
Mount Andree
Peak
Mount Andree is an ice-free hill, 140 m, surmounting the small headland between Cave and West Bays on the west side of Heard Island. First charted and named by Edgar Aubert de la Rue, French geologist aboard the whale humper Kildalkey, who with his wife Andree undertook geological investigations along the north and west sides of the island in January 1929.
Mount Drygalski
Peak
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Mount Drygalski is an ice-free hill, 210 metres high, standing 0.7 nautical miles southeast of Atlas Cove, near the northwest end of Heard Island in the southern Indian Ocean.
Mount Olsen
Peak
Mount Olsen is a snow-covered peak standing 0.2 nautical miles east of Hayter Peak on Laurens Peninsula, in the northwest part of Heard Island. The feature appears to have been roughly charted on an 1860 sketch map compiled by Captain H.C.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Corinth Head and Erratic Point.
Corinth Head
Locality
Corinth Head is a rocky headland 0.5 nautical miles southeast of Rogers Head, overlooking the west side of Corinthian Bay, on the north side of Heard Island.
Erratic Point
Locality
Erratic Point is a small, moss-covered point at the head of South West Bay, 1.3 nautical miles northeast of Cape Gazert, on the west side of Heard Island in the southern Indian Ocean.
Rogers Head
Locality
Rogers Head is a conspicuous headland marking the north extremity of the peninsula between Atlas Cove and Corinthian Bay on the north coast of Heard Island.
Mount Aubert de la Rue
- Categories: hill and landform
- Location: Heard Island and McDonald Islands
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Latitude
-53.02369° or 53° 1′ 25″ southLongitude
73.37242° or 73° 22′ 21″ eastElevation
125 metres (410 feet)Open location code
3JRMX9GC+GXOpenStreetMap ID
node 2855510576OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Mount Aubert de la Rue” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Mount Aubert de la Rue”
- Chinese: “奧伯特魯埃山”
- Dutch: “Mount Aubert de la Rue”
- German: “Mount Aubert de la Rue”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mount Aubert de la Rue”
- Swedish: “Mount Aubert de la Rue”
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