Mount Liotard
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Mount Liotard is a mountain
Mountain
Image:Himalaya_annotated.jpg|thumb|right|The Himalayan mountain range with Mount Everestrect 58 14 160 49 Chomo Lonzorect 200 28 335 52 Makalurect 378 24 566 45 Mount Everestrect 188 581 920 656 Tibetan Plateaurect 250 406 340 427 Rong River...

 having a conspicuous ice-covered peak
Summit (topography)
In topography, a summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. Mathematically, a summit is a local maximum in elevation...

, 2,225 m, standing midway between Mount Gaudry
Mount Gaudry
Mount Gaudry is a mountain, 2,315 m, rising close southwest of Mount Barre and 5 nautical miles north-northwest of Mount Liotard in the south part of Adelaide Island. Discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, under Charcot who named it after Albert Gaudry, prominent French...

 and Mount Ditte
Mount Ditte
Mount Ditte is a mountain, 1,400 m, surmounting Cape Alexandra in the southeast extremity of Adelaide Island. Discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1908–10, and named by Charcot for Alfred Ditte, noted French chemist....

 in the south part of Adelaide Island
Adelaide Island
Adelaide Island or Isla Adelaida or Isla Belgrano 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 island lies within the Argentine, British and Chilean Antarctic claims, at .Adelaide Island was...

. Discovered and first surveyed by the French Antarctic Expedition
French Antarctic Expedition
French Antarctic Expedition refers to several French expeditions in Antarctica.-First expedition:Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec was a French explorer....

 in 1909. Resurveyed in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Andre F. Liotard, French observer with the FIDS in 1947-48 and leader of the French Antarctic Expedition, 1949-51.
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