Mount Worsley
Mount Worsley is a mountain, 1,105 m, on the west side of Briggs Glacier in South Georgia. It was surveyed by the South Georgia Survey in the period 1951–57, and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Frank Arthur Worsley, skipper of the Endurance on 1914-16 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Peggotty Bluff.
Peggotty Bluff
Locality
King Haakon Bay, or King Haakon Sound, is an inlet on the southern coast of the island of South Georgia. The inlet is approximately 13 km long and 4 km wide. Peggotty Bluff is situated 10 km northwest of Mount Worsley.
Mount Worsley
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 1,105 metres
- Description: mountain in South Georgia
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
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Latitude
-54.1857° or 54° 11′ 9″ southLongitude
-37.14701° or 37° 8′ 49″ westElevation
1,105 metres (3,625 feet)Open location code
39Q4RV73+P5OpenStreetMap ID
node 9125933319OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Spanish—“Mount Worsley” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “沃斯利山”
- Dutch: “Mount Worsley”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت ورسلى”
- French: “mont Worsley”
- French: “Mont Worsley”
- German: “Mount Worsley”
- Ladin: “Mount Worsley”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mount Worsley”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Mount Worsley”
- Norwegian: “Mount Worsley”
- Portuguese: “Monte Worsley”
- Spanish: “Monte Worsley”
Localities in the Area
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