Thomson Head is a steep, rocky headland

Headland

A headland is a point of land, usually high and often with a sheer drop, that extends out into a body of water.Headland can also refer to:*Headlands and bays*headLand, an Australian television series...

 rising to 915 m at the east side of Bourgeois Fjord

Bourgeois Fjord

Bourgeois Fjord is an inlet, long in a northeast–southwest direction and wide, lying between the east sides of Pourquoi Pas Island and Blaiklock Island and the west coast of Graham Land. It separates Loubet Coast to the north from Fallières Coast to the south...

, between Perutz

Perutz Glacier

Perutz Glacier is a glacier, 10 nautical miles long and 2 nautical miles wide, which flows west-northwest into Bourgeois Fjord, close east of Thomson Head, on the west coast of Graham Land. The mouth of the glacier was first surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition under Rymill...

 and Bader Glacier

Bader Glacier

Bader Glacier is a small glacier draining the west slopes of Rudozem Heights and flowing to Bourgeois Fjord just south of Thomson Head on German Peninsula, Fallières Coast on the west side of Graham Land, Antarctica...

s, forming the north extremity of German Peninsula

German Peninsula

German Peninsula is the mountainous peninsula projecting from the north end of Fallières Coast in Graham Land, Antarctica 11.4 km in west direction between Bourgeois Fjord to the north and west, and Dogs Leg Fjord to the south...

 on Fallières Coast

Fallieres Coast

Fallières Coast is that portion of the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between the head of Bourgeois Fjord and Cape Jeremy and lies on Marguerite Bay and the Wordie Ice Shelf. On the south it is joined by Rymill Coast, and in the north by Loubet Coast. Fallières Coast was first explored in...

 on the west side of Graham Land

Graham Land

Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...

, Antarctica. First surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition

British Graham Land Expedition

A British expedition to Graham Land led by John Lachlan Cope took place between 1920 and 1922. The British Graham Land Expedition was a geophysical and exploration expedition to Graham Land in Antarctica between 1934 to 1937. Under the leadership of John Riddoch Rymill, the expedition spent two...

 (BGLE) under Rymill. Resurveyed in 1948-49 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) and named for William H. Thomson, FIDS air pilot at Stonington Island

Stonington Island

Stonington Island is a rocky island lying 1 mile northeast of Neny Island in the eastern part of Marguerite Bay, off the west coast of Graham Land. Stonington Island is located at . Stonington Island, 0.4 miles long from northwest to southeast and 0.2 miles wide formerly connected by a drifted snow...

in 1947.

Map

• British Antarctic Territory. Scale 1:200000 topographic map. DOS 610 Series, Sheet W 67 66. Directorate of Overseas Surveys, Tolworth, UK, 1978.