Mount Barre is a mountain

Mountain

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 with an ice-covered, pyramidal 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...

, 2,195 m, standing 2 nautical miles (3.7 km) northeast of 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...

 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 surveyed in 1909 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....

 under Charcot. Resurveyed in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Michel Barre, leader of the French Antarctic Expedition to the Adelie Coast, 1951-52.