Baie de la Table

Baie de la Table

Baie de la Table is a bay that marks the separation between the Gallieni Peninsula to the east with the Bougainville Peninsula, and the Rallier du Baty Peninsula to the west with La Bourdonnais Peninsula, located south of the Grande Terre of the Kerguelen Islands in the French Southern and Antarctic Lands. Baie de la Table can be considered part of Baie d'Audierne, of which it occupies the northern part. It extends deep into the Rallier du Baty peninsula via the Portes Noires fjord, into which the Rivière Chasles flows. It takes its name from the 245m high Table Mountain, which dominates the area with its distinctive profile east of its entrance at the end of the Bougainville Peninsula. This toponym dates back to the mid-19th century, when Anglo-American seal hunters visited the area and named it Table Bay in the Admiralty charts of 1874.