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Name Latitude Longitude Feature Type
Buls Bay (GBR) 64° 24' 00.0" S 62° 18' 00.0" W Bay
Name ID: 108014 Place ID: 2039

between d'Ursel Point (q.v.) and Terrada Point, SE Brabant Island, was roughly mapped by BeAE, 30 January-6 February 1898, and named Baie Buls (Lecointe, map 1899) or Baie de Buls (Gerlache, 1900b, p.470; Lecointe, 1903, Carte 5), after M. Ch. Buls, Burgomaster of Brussels and a member of the SRBG Committee at the time, who assisted the expedition. Buls Bay (BA chart 1238, viii.1900; APC, 1955, p. 6; BAS 250 sheet SQ 19-20/4, 1-DOS 1974). Buls Bucht (Nordenskjöld and others, 1904b, Vol. 2, first end map). Bul [sic] Bay (Nordenskjöld and others, 1905, map facing p. 316). Bahïa Buls (Riso Paton S., 1908, end map; Pierrou, 1970, p. 224; Chile. IHA, 1974, p. 59). Buls B. (HA chart, 1928). Bulls [sic] Bay (BA chart 3570, 5.i.1951). The bay was surveyed by FIDS from Norsel in April 1955 and photographed from the air by FIDASE in 1956-57.

Buls Bay (USA) 64° 23' 00.0" S 62° 19' 00.0" W Bay
Name ID: 123083 Place ID: 2039

Bay 2 mi wide, which indents the E side of Brabant Island just N of D'Ursel Point, in the Palmer Archipelago. Discovered by the BelgAE under Gerlache, 1897-99, and named by him for Ch. Buls, a supporter of the expedition.

Buls, bahía (ARG) 64° 23' 00.0" S 62° 19' 00.0" W Bay
Name ID: 100376 Place ID: 2039

Buls, Bahía (CHL) 64° 24' 00.0" S 62° 18' 00.0" W Bay
Name ID: 105259 Place ID: 2039

Descubierta 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 patrocinante de la expedición. Bahía de aproximadamente 2,5 millas de ancho, que se abre sobre la costa oriental de la isla Brabante, al N del cabo D'Ursel, archipiélago de Palmer.

Buls, Baie (BEL) 64° 23' 00.0" S 62° 19' 00.0" W Bay
Name ID: 104903 Place ID: 2039

Charles Buls fut Bourgmestre de Bruxelles de 1891 à 1899.

Lensink Peak (AUS) 71° 03' 31.4" S 65° 25' 27.0" E Peak
Name ID: 2039 Place ID: 8329

One of the group of three peaks, south-east of Husky Massif and about 30 km east of Mount Hicks in the Prince Charles Mountains. Plotted from ANARE air photographs taken in 1960. Named after W.H. Lensink, weather observer at Wilkes in 1960.

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