Mont Havergal is a mountain in the French Southern and Antarctic Lands. Located in the Loranchet Peninsula at the northern end of Kerguelen, between Baie de l'Oiseau and Baie de la Dauphine, it rises to a height of above sea level. To the north lies Baie Ducheyron, the northernmost bay of Kerguelen.Google Earth
History This mountain was named in 1874 during the Challenger expedition after Arthur Havergal, second lieutenant of navigation on the HMS Challenger.Gracie Delépine, Toponymie des Terres Australes, éditions La Documentation française, Paris, 1973, p. 178
Mont Havergal was explored ten years later during the Ross expedition by Robert McCormick. He found fossilized tree trunks on its slopes and concluded that Kerguelen had been covered by forests in a previous era.Jean-Paul Kauffmann, L'arche des Kerguelen - Voyage aux îles de la Désolation
See also Kerguelen Arch Port-Christmas
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L’Archipel de Kerguelen : les plus vieilles îles dans le plus jeune océan