Mont Docteur Récamier () is a mountain in the French Southern and Antarctic Lands. Located in the Joffre Peninsula, Kerguelen, it rises to a height of above sea level.Google Earth
Mont Docteur Récamier is the highest point of the Joffre Peninsula. It rises at the southwestern end, a little to the east of the narrow isthmus.
History This mountain was named in 1913 or 1914 by Raymond Rallier du Baty after Doctor Joseph Récamier, secretary and travel companion of Duke Philippe D'Orléans. It first appeared on the map in 1922.Gracie Delépine, Toponymie des Terres Australes, éditions La Documentation française, Paris, 1973, p. 121
See also Toponymy of the Kerguelen Islands
References
External links IPF - Logistics and implementation of science