# Mount Worsley

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Mountain in South Georgia

**Mount Worsley** ([54°11′S 37°9′W / 54.183°S 37.150°W / -54.183; -37.150](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Mount_Worsley&params=54_11_S_37_9_W_)) is a [mountain](/source/Mountain), 1,105 m, on the west side of [Briggs Glacier](/source/Briggs_Glacier) in [South Georgia](/source/South_Georgia_Island). It was surveyed by the [South Georgia Survey](/source/South_Georgia_Survey) in the period 1951–57, and named by the [United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee](/source/United_Kingdom_Antarctic_Place-Names_Committee) (UK-APC) for [Frank Arthur Worsley](/source/Frank_Arthur_Worsley) (1872–1943), skipper of the *Endurance* on 1914-16 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. Worsley accompanied [Ernest Shackleton](/source/Ernest_Shackleton) in the *[James Caird](/source/James_Caird_(ship))* from [Elephant Island](/source/Elephant_Island) to [King Haakon Bay](/source/King_Haakon_Bay), South Georgia, and made the overland crossing with him to [Stromness](/source/Stromness%2C_South_Georgia) whaling station.

This article incorporates [public domain material](https://www.usgs.gov/information-policies-and-instructions/copyrights-and-credits) from ["Mount Worsley"](https://web.archive.org/web/2020/https://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=gnispq:5:::NO::P5_ANTAR_ID:16796). *[Geographic Names Information System](/source/Geographic_Names_Information_System)*. [United States Geological Survey](/source/United_States_Geological_Survey).

v t e Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition Events Drift of the Aurora Voyage of the James Caird Rescue by the Yelcho Luis Pardo Locations Caird Coast Cave Cove Elephant Island Fortuna Glacier King Haakon Bay McDonald Ice Rumples Mount Worsley Peggotty Bluff Stromness Stromness Bay Personnel Aurora Atkin d'Anglade Donnelly Downing Glidden Grady Hooke Kavanagh Larkman Maugher Mugridge Ninnis Paton Shaw Stenhouse Thompson Warren Wise Shore party: Cope Gaze Hayward Jack Joyce Mackintosh Richards Spencer-Smith Stevens Wild Endurance Bakewell Blackborow Cheetham Clark Crean Green Greenstreet Holness How Hudson Hurley Hussey James Kerr Macklin Marston McCarthy McIlroy McLeod McNish Mrs Chippy Orde-Lees Rickinson Shackleton Stephenson Vincent Wild Wordie Worsley Category Commons

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