Mount Liotard

Mount Liotard

Mount Liotard (67°37′S 68°34′W / 67.617°S 68.567°W / -67.617; -68.567) is a mountain having a conspicuous ice-covered peak, 2,225 m, standing midway between Mount Gaudry and Mount Ditte in the south part of Adelaide Island. Discovered and first surveyed by the French Antarctic Expedition 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.

 This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Mount Liotard" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).