Cape Worsley

Cape Worsley is a dome-shaped cape 738 feet high, with snow-free cliffs on the south and east sides, lying 10 nautical miles east of the south end of the Detroit Plateau and south-west of Fothergill Point on the Nordenskjöld Coast.

The cape was surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from 'Hope Bay' in November 1947.

The cape is named for Commander Frank Worsley, the polar explorer and member of Sir Ernest Shackleton's expeditions of 1914-16 and 1921-22, in association with Mount Wild (named after Frank Wild, also of Shackleton's Endurance expedition. Worsley, born in New Zealand, was Master of the Endurance on the British Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition and of the Quest on the Shackleton-Rowett Antarctic Expedition of 1921-22; Joint Leader of an expedition to Franz Josef Land in 1925.

The cape was further surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey from 'Hope Bay' in 1961.

See also

• Mount Worsley, South Georgia

Location

• Location map: 64°39’16"S, 60°22’0"W