Mont Wyville Thomson

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.
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.
Edgar Aubert de la Rüe climbed to the summit on Christmas Day 1949 with two traveling companions. He wrote: