Mount Barre () is a
mountain
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with an ice-covered, pyramidal
peak Peak or The Peak may refer to:
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* Mountain peak
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* Peak hour or rush hour, in traffic congestion
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, 2,195 m, standing 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) northeast of
Mount Gaudry
Mount Gaudry is a mountain, high, rising close southwest of Mount Barre and north-northwest of Mount Liotard in the southern part of Adelaide Island, Antarctica. It was discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, under Jean-Bap ...
in the south part of
Adelaide Island
Adelaide Island is a large, mainly ice-covered island, long and wide, lying at the north side of Marguerite Bay off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. The Ginger Islands lie off the southern end. Mount Bodys is the easternmost mount ...
. Discovered and surveyed in 1909 by the
French Antarctic Expedition under Charcot. Resurveyed in 1948 by the
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey
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(FIDS) and named by the
United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee
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(UK-APC) for
Michel Barre
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* Michel (name), a given name or surname of French origin (and list of people with the name)
* Míchel (nickname), a nickname (a list of people with the nickname, mainly Spanish footballers)
* Míchel (footballer, born 1963), ...
, leader of the French Antarctic Expedition to the
Adelie Coast Adelie or Adélie may refer to:
* Adélie Land, a claimed territory on the continent of Antarctica
* Adelie Land meteorite, a meteorite discovered on December 5, 1912, in Antarctica by Francis Howard Bickerton
* Adélie penguin, a species of pengui ...
, 1951–52.
Mountains of Adelaide Island
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