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Mount Zdarsky is a mountain rising at the east side of Simler Snowfield, between Barilari and Holtedahl Bays on the west coast of Graham Land. A mountain is a Landform that extends above the surrounding Terrain in a limited area with a peak Simler Snowfield ( is a snowfield lying northeast of Holtedahl Bay, on the west coast of Graham Land. Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. First charted and named "Mont Garcia" by the French Antarctic Expedition under Jean-Baptiste Charcot, 1908-10, presumably in association with his nearby "Cap Garcia". French Antarctic Expedition refers to several French expeditions in Antarctica. Jean-Baptiste Charcot ( July 15, 1867 &ndash September 16, 1936) born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, was a French scientist

Charcot later transferred "Cap Garcia" (now Cape Garcia) to the north entrance of Barilari Bay, leaving the mountain name on the south side. To avoid confusion with Cape Garcia on the other side of Barilari Bay, the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) altered the name of this mountain in 1959 to Mount Zdarsky. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for It is named for Mathias Zdarsky, the Austrian pioneer exponent of ski-mountaineering, inventor of the first dependable ski binding, and author of one of the earliest skiing manuals. Mathias Zdarsky (born 25 February[[ 856]] in Kozichowitz Czech Kožichovice near Třebíč District of Austria, present Czechia died Coordinates: 66°05′S 64°58′W / -66.083, -64.967

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