Mount Paulcke () is a
mountain
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, at least 915 m, standing west of
Huitfeldt Point,
Barilari Bay
Barilari Bay () is a bay long and wide, between Cape Garcia and Loqui Point on the west coast of Graham Land. The glaciers Birley, Lawrie, Weir and Bilgeri feed the bay.
It was discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, and ...
, on the west coast of
Graham Land
Graham Land is the portion of the Antarctic Peninsula that lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and ...
. Photographed by
Hunting Aerosurveys Ltd. in 1956–57, and mapped from these photos by the
Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey
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(FIDS). Named by the
United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee
The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) and ...
(UK-APC) in 1959 for
Wilhelm Paulcke (1873–1949), German pioneer exponent of skiing who, with three companions, demonstrated the possibilities of long distance ski-mountaineering for the first time.
Mountains of Graham Land
Graham Coast
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