Péninsule Jeanne d'Arc

The peninsula occupies the south-eastern corner of Grande Terre, to which it is connected by the narrow, 350-metre (1,150 ft) wide Haulage des Swains isthmus at its north-west end, and by the similarly narrow Haulage des Naufragés isthmus to Presqu'île Ronarc'h towards the eastern end of its north coast.

Port Jeanne d'Arc is the site of an abandoned Norwegian whaling station at the western end of the peninsula's north coast that is subject to a cultural heritage conservation program.

[1] The southern coast of the peninsula has been identified as a 120-square-kilometre (46 sq mi) Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because of its breeding seabirds.

With the exception of the Canyon des Sourcils Noirs, at the eastern end of the site, which is regularly visited by scientists monitoring a study population of black-browed albatrosses, human presence is rare.

Kerguelen's only population of sooty albatrosses is found at the Canyon des Sourcils Noirs, together with the 1,300 pairs of black-brows.