Mount Huckle is a mainly ice-covered mountain

Mountain

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, height 2,500 m, near the north end of Douglas Range

Douglas Range

Douglas Range is a sharp-crested range, with peaks rising to 3,000 metres, extending 120 km in a northwest-southeast direction from Mount Nicholas to Mount Edred and forming a steep east escarpment of Alexander Island within the British Antarctic Territory, overlooking the north part of...

 in east Alexander Island

Alexander Island

Alexander Island or Alexander I Island or Alexander I Land or Alexander Land is the largest island of Antarctica, with an area of lying in the Bellingshausen Sea west of the base of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which it is separated by Marguerite Bay and George VI Sound. Alexander Island lies off...

, Antarctica. It rises 11 km (7 mi) south-southeast of Mount Spivey

Mount Spivey

Mount Spivey is a flat-topped, mainly ice-covered mountain, 2,135 m, standing on the west side of Toynbee Glacier and 9 nautical miles south of Mount Nicholas, in the north part of the Douglas Range of Alexander Island. First photographed from the air in 1937 by the British Graham Land Expedition...

 on the west side of Toynbee Glacier

Toynbee Glacier

Toynbee Glacier is a glacier in northeast Alexander Island, 17 nautical miles long and 5 nautical miles wide, between the mountains of the Douglas Range on the west and Mount Tyrrell and Mount Tilley on the east. It flows north from Mount Stephenson to George VI Sound...

 and is 14 km (9 mi) inland from George VI Sound

George VI Sound

George VI Sound or Canal Jorge VI or Canal Presidente Sarmiento or Canal Seaver or King George VI Sound or King George the Sixth Sound is a major bay/fault depression, 300 miles long in the shape of the letter J, which skirts the east and south shores of Alexander Island, separating it from the...

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The mountain was possibly first seen in 1909 by the French Antarctic Expedition

French Antarctic Expedition

French Antarctic Expedition refers to several French expeditions in Antarctica.-First expedition:Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec was a French explorer....

 under Charcot, but not recognized as part of Alexander Island. It was photographed from the air in 1936-37 by the British Graham Land Expedition

British Graham Land Expedition

A British expedition to Graham Land led by John Lachlan Cope took place between 1920 and 1922. The British Graham Land Expedition was a geophysical and exploration expedition to Graham Land in Antarctica between 1934 to 1937. Under the leadership of John Riddoch Rymill, the expedition spent two...

 (BGLE) under Rymill

John Riddoch Rymill

John Riddoch Rymill was an Australian polar explorer, who had the rare second clasp added to his Polar Medal.- Early life :Rymill was born the son of a farmer on 13 March 1905 at Penola, South Australia...

, and surveyed from the ground in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS).

The mountain was named after John Sydney Rodney Huckle, general assistant at Stonington Island

Stonington Island

Stonington Island is a rocky island lying 1 mile northeast of Neny Island in the eastern part of Marguerite Bay, off the west coast of Graham Land. Stonington Island is located at . Stonington Island, 0.4 miles long from northwest to southeast and 0.2 miles wide formerly connected by a drifted snow...

, who aided in the FIDS survey of the west side of George VI Sound in 1949.