Mount Carse is a
mountain
A mountain is an elevated portion of the Earth's crust, generally with steep sides that show significant exposed bedrock. Although definitions vary, a mountain may differ from a plateau in having a limited Summit (topography), summit area, and ...
having several peaks, the highest at , standing north of the head of
Drygalski Fjord
Drygalski Fjord is a bay wide which recedes northwestwards , entered immediately north of Nattriss Head along the southeast coast of South Georgia. It was charted by the Second German Antarctic Expedition, 1911–12, under Wilhelm Filchner, an ...
in the southern part of the
Salvesen Range
The Salvesen Mountains or Salvesen Range is a mountain range on the southern tip of South Georgia, rising to a maximum elevation of . They were created 127 million years ago and are made mainly from granite. The Cretaceous granite is embedded into ...
of
South Georgia. It was surveyed by the
South Georgia Survey
The South Georgia Survey was a series of expeditions to survey and map the island of South Georgia, led by Duncan Carse between 1951 and 1957.
Although South Georgia had been commercially exploited as a whaling station during the first half of ...
(SGS) between 1951 and 1957 and named for
V. Duncan Carse, leader of the four SGS expeditions during that period.
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The first ascent was made on 21 January 1990 by Brian Davison and Stephen Venables, members of the Southern Ocean Mountaineering Expedition.
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References
Literature
* 'Island at the Edge of the World' by Stephen Venables. Hodder & Stoughton 1991
Carse
In Scottish geography, a Carse (the modern form of older Scots ; Scottish Gaelic or ) is an area of fertile, low-lying (typically alluvial) land occupying certain Scottish river valleys, such as that of the River Forth.
Carse of Forth
The C ...
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