Mount Barré
| Mount Barré | ||
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| height | 2195 m | |
| location | Adelaide Island , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | The Princess Royal Range | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 30 ′ 37 ″ S , 68 ° 31 ′ 36 ″ W | |
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| First ascent | February 9, 1963 by a BAS team | |
| Normal way | Alpine tour (glaciated) | |
Mount Barré is an icy, pyramidal and 2,195 m high mountain in the south of the West Antarctic Adelaide Island west of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises 3 km northeast of Mount Gaudry in the Princess Royal Range .
The mountain was discovered and measured in 1909 during the Fifth French Antarctic Expedition (1908–1910) under the direction of polar explorer Jean-Baptiste Charcot . In 1948, the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey carried out a new survey. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the mountain after Michel Barré (* 1919), head of a French Antarctic expedition (1950–1952) to the coast of the East Antarctic Adélieland .
Web links
- Mount Barré in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Barré on geographic.org (English)