Mount Worsley

Mount Worsley

Mount Worsley (54°11′S 37°9′W / 54.183°S 37.15°W / -54.183; -37.15) is a mountain, 1,105 m, on the west side of Briggs Glacier in South Georgia. Surveyed by the SGS in the period 1951-57, and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Frank A. Worsley (1872–1943), Master of the 1914-16. Worsley accompanied Ernest Shackleton in the James Caird from Elephant Island to King Haakon Bay, South Georgia, and made the overland crossing with him to Stromness whaling station.

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