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Mount Worsley (54°11′S 37°9′W / 54.183°S 37.15°W) 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.
This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Mount Worsley" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).
Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition People Weddell Sea partyWilliam Bakewell · Perce Blackborow · Alfred Cheetham · Robert Clark · Tom Crean · Daniel Gooch · Charles Green · Lionel Greenstreet · Ernest Holness · Walter How · Huberht Hudson · Frank Hurley · Leonard Hussey · Reginald James · Alexander Kerr · Alexander Macklin · George Marston · Timothy McCarthy · James McIlroy · Thomas McLeod · Harry McNish · Thomas Orde-Lees · Lewis Rickinson · Ernest Shackleton · William Stephenson · John Vincent · Frank Wild · James Wordie · Frank WorsleyRoss Sea partyAboard the Aurora: Sydney Atkin · Emile d'Anglade · C. Adrian Donnelly · Arthur Downing · Charles Glidden · S. Grady · Lionel Hooke · William Kavanagh · Alfred Larkman · Clarence Maugher · William Mugridge · Aubrey Ninnis · James Paton · Harold Shaw · Joseph Stenhouse · Leslie Thompson · A. "Shorty" Warren · Edward Wise
Shore party: John Cope · Irvine Gaze · Victor Hayward · Andrew Jack · Ernest Joyce · Aeneas Mackintosh · Richard W. Richards · Arnold Spencer-Smith · Alexander Stevens · Ernest WildOtherPlaces and vessels SY Aurora · Caird Coast · Cave Cove · Elephant Island · Endurance · Fortuna Glacier · King Haakon Bay · McDonald Ice Rumples · Mount Worsley · Peggotty Bluff · Stromness, South Georgia · Stromness BayEvents and parties Other Mrs. Chippy · The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (2000) · Shackleton's Antarctic Adventure (2001) · Shackleton (2002)
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