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
** Pyramidal peak, a mountaintop that has been sculpted by erosion to form a point Mathematics
* Peak hour or rush hour, in traffic congestion
* Peak (geometry), an (''n''-3)-d ...
, 2,195 m, standing 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) northeast of
Mount Gaudry 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 mounta ...
. Discovered and surveyed in 1909 by the
French Antarctic Expedition
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1837–1840
In 1837, during an 1837–1840 expedition across the deep southern hemisphere, Captain Jules Dumont d'Urville sailed his ship ''Astrolabe'' alo ...
under Charcot. Resurveyed in 1948 by the
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey
The Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition (FIDASE) was an aerial survey of the Falkland Islands Dependencies
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(FIDS) and named by the
United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee
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(UK-APC) for
Michel Barre, leader of the French Antarctic Expedition to the
Adelie Coast, 1951–52.
Mountains of Adelaide Island
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