Your 4447. [1]

United Kingdom view informally obtained pending written reply
anticipated next week is in entire agreement with proposed
Australian occupation of Heard Island. United Kingdom relinquishes
all claims thereon which it may have and which Law Officers state
are extremely tenuous. Suggest that if public statement be made
the word 'occupation' not 'annexation' be used avoiding public
suggestion of sovereignty claims at this stage. Machinery proposed
for relinquishment of claim is still under discussion between
legal officers of Foreign Office and Colonial Office.