Arms of the British Antarctic Territory

Mount Huckle

(Douglas Range)

British Antarctic Territory

Location: 69° 38' 7" S 69° 47' 60" W
rising to c. 2600m in Douglas Range, W of Toynbee Glacier, N Alexander Island, was possibly sighted by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1908-10, on 21 January 1909 but not recognized as part of Douglas Range; photographed from the air by the British Graham Land Expedition, 16 August 1936 and 1 February 1937, and by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition in 1947; surveyed on its E side by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from 'Stonington Island' in 1948; named after John Sydney Rodney Huckle (b. 1924), the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey general assistant, 'Deception Island' (Base Leader), 1947-48, and 'Stonington Island', 1948-50, who took part in survey of the W side of George VI Sound in 1949; ice pilot in Oluf Sven on the Falkland Islands and Dependencies Aerial Survey Expedition, 1956-57, and helicopter pilot with whale factory ships in three later seasons.