Mount Worsley
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Mount Worsley () 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 text from Mount Worsley, in the Geographic Names Information System, operated by the United States Geological Survey, and therefore a public domain work of the United States Government.
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