Mount Andrée
| Mount Andrée | ||
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| height | 141 m | |
| location | Heard ( Heard and McDonald Islands ) | |
| Coordinates | 53 ° 1 '57 " S , 73 ° 22' 5" E | |
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The Mount Andrée (in other notation Mount Andrei ) is an ice-free and 141 m high hill on the island of Heard . It towers over the small headland between Cave Bay and West Bay on the west side of the island.
It was first mapped and named as Mont Andrée de la Rüe in 1929 by the French geologist Edgar Aubert de la Rüe (1901-1991), who undertook geological surveys on the north and west coast of the island on board the whaler Kildalkey . The hill was identified in the British Australian and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition (1929-1931) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson in 1929 as part of a fragmented volcanic crater and named as Cave Bay Hill . However, the name that is valid today is a shortening of the original name made by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia (ANCA) in 1954. It is named after de la Rüe's wife.
Web links
- Mount Andrée in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Andrée on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mount Andrei in the directory of the Australian Antarctic Data Center (English, accessed July 2, 2020)