Mount Liotard

Mount Liotard
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height	2225 m
location	Adelaide Island , West Antarctica
Mountains	The Princess Royal Range
Coordinates	67 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ S , 68 ° 33 ′ 48 ″ W Coordinates: 67 ° 37 ′ 0 ″ S , 68 ° 33 ′ 48 ″ W.
Normal way	Alpine tour (glaciated)

Mount Liotard is a 2225 m (according to British data 2100 m ) high mountain with a striking, ice-covered summit in the south of the West Antarctic Adelaide Island west of the Antarctic Peninsula . In the Princess Royal Range , it looms halfway between Mount Gaudry and Mount Ditte .

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 (FIDS) carried out a new survey. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the mountain in 1955 after André-Franck Liotard (1905-1982), French employee of the FIDS from 1947 to 1948 and head of a French Antarctic expedition (1949-1951) to the coast of the East Antarctic Adélieland .

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