Pouce or Le PouceAntarctic Names - Gazetteer - AADC () 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, the highest point of the Ronarc'h Peninsula, rises roughly to the SSE.
History This mountain was named "Thumb Peak" in 1874 by the chief scientists of the Challenger expedition who came to observe the transit of Venus. The current name is a French translation.Gracie Delépine, Toponymie des Terres Australes, éditions La Documentation française, Paris, 1973, p. 279
See also Toponymy of the Kerguelen Islands
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Presqu'île Ronarc'h and the Mont du Pouce