LST 3501, Later HMAS Labuan, landed a party of Australian National Research Expedition members on Heard Island off the Antarctic continental shelf. In a brief ceremony the Australian Flag was raised and the lonely outcrop was formally claimed for the Commonwealth.
Australian Naval History on 22 December 1947
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