Mount Carse

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Mount Carse
height 2330  m
location South Georgia ( South Atlantic )
Mountains Salvesen Range
Coordinates 54 ° 42 '34 "  S , 36 ° 6' 30"  W Coordinates: 54 ° 42 '34 "  S , 36 ° 6' 30"  W
Mount Carse (South Georgia)
Mount Carse
First ascent 1990 by Brian Davison and Stephen Venables

The Mount Carse is up to 2330  m high mountain with several peaks on South Georgia in the South Atlantic . It rises 3.2 km north of the end of the Drygalski Fjord in the southern part of the Salvesen Range .

The South Georgia Survey mapped it during its 1951-1957 survey campaign and named it after Duncan Carse (1913-2004), the leader of the four expeditions during this period. The first ascent was on January 21, 1990 by Brian Davison and Stephen Venables over the northwest ridge.

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Individual evidence

  1. Mount Carse ( English ) In: Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey . Retrieved July 16, 2010.
  2. ^ Julian Freeman-Attwood: South Georgia, 1989-1990. In: H. Adams Carter (Ed.): American Alpine Journal. Volume 33, The Mountaineers Books, 1991, ISBN 0-930410-46-7 , pp. 206-208, Google Books , accessed December 15, 2011.
  3. Stephen Venables: To the Limit. Bruckmann Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7654-4819-5 , p. 114 f.