Mont Wyville Thomson is a mountain in the French Southern and Antarctic Lands. Located in the Ronarc'h Peninsula, Kerguelen, it rises to a height of above sea level.Google Earth
Mont Wyville Thomson is the highest point of the Ronarc'h Peninsula. It rises almost in the centre.
History This mountain was named in 1874 after Charles Wyville Thomson, the chief scientist of the Challenger expedition.Gracie Delépine, Toponymie des Terres Australes, éditions La Documentation française, Paris, 1973
Edgar Aubert de la Rüe climbed to the summit on Christmas Day 1949 with two traveling companions.Edgar Aubert de la Rüe, Deux ans aux îles de la Désolation. Archipel de Kerguelen, Julliard, 1954, . He wrote:
See also Toponymy of the Kerguelen Islands
References
External links IPF - Logistics and implementation of science