Bulcke fingers
| Bulcke fingers | ||
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| height | 700 m | |
| location | Brabant Island , Palmer Archipelago | |
| Coordinates | 64 ° 28 ′ 6 ″ S , 62 ° 37 ′ 56 ″ W | |
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The Bulcke finger is a striking, 700 m high, finger-shaped rock needle in the southern part of the Brabant Island in the Palmer Archipelago off the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises from the western slopes of Mount Bulcke .
The first sighting and first photographs go back to participants in the Belgica expedition (1897–1899) under the direction of the Belgian polar explorer Adrien de Gerlache de Gomery . Aerial photographs, which were used to map the formation in 1959, were taken between 1956 and 1957 by Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey named it after the name of the mountain of the same name. Its namesake is Auguste Bulcke from Antwerp , a sponsor of the Belgica expedition.
Web links
- Bulcke finger in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Bulcke Finger on geographic.org (English)