COMPOSITE GAZETTEER OF ANTARCTICA

Nom d'un important amateur anversois.

Fue descubierto por la Expedición Antártica Belga de 1897-1899, al mando del teniente Adrien de Gerlache, quien le dio el nombre por el apellido de un auspiciador de la expedición. Monte macizo y escarpado, de aproximadamente 1.030 metros de elevación, que se ubica a 3 millas al NNW del cabo Lagrange, extremo S de la isla Brabante, archipiélago de Palmer.

rising to 1030m in S Brabant Island, was roughly mapped by BeAE on 31 January 1898 and named Mont Bulcke after Aug. Bulcke and J. Bulcke of Antwerp (SRGA, 1900, p. 5; Lecointe, 1903, Carte 5). Monte Buckle [sic] (Gerlache, 1902a). Cerros Bulcke (Riso Patron S., 1908, p. 14). Mount Bulcke (BA chart 1238, ix.1908; APC, 1958, p. 4; BAS 250 sheet SQ 19-20/4, 1-DOS 1974). Mount Bulckee [sic] (USAAF chart [LR-74], 1942). Monte Bulcke (Chile. DNH chart LI, 1947; Pierrou, 1970, p. 223; Chile. IHA, 1974, p. 58). Mount Buckle [sic] (BA chart 3570, 5.i.1951). Mount Bulke, in error (APC, 1955, p. 6). The mountain was photographed from the air and surveyed from the ground by FIDASE in 1956-57. Cape Lagrange, in error (Lagrange Peak, q.v.) (USHO, 1940, 2nd view p. 357).

Bold summit, 1,030 m, at the end of an ice-covered spur which extends S from the Solvay Mountains, in the S extremity of Brabant Island, in the Palmer Archipelago. Discovered by the BelgAE under Gerlache, 1897-99, and named by him for a supporter of the expedition.