Pic du Mascarin

Pic du Mascarin is the highest mountain in the Île de la Possession, Crozet Islands, French Southern and Antarctic Lands, Indian Ocean.

Geography

This high peak rises above the Lac Perdu and the L'au-delà Plateau in the southern sector of Île de la Possession, the largest island of the Crozet group.
The mountain was named after the Mascarin, the ship on which French explorers Marc-Joseph Marion du Fresne and his second-in-command Julien Crozet were the first to explore the Crozet Islands in 1772.