Sørlle Peak
| Sørlle Peak | ||
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| height | 760 m | |
| location | South Georgia | |
| Coordinates | 54 ° 8 ′ 58 ″ S , 37 ° 5 ′ 10 ″ W | |
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The Sørlle Peak is a 760 m high mountain on South Georgia in the South Atlantic . It rises east of the Murray snowfield and north of The Trident ridge .
The mountain is on the route that the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton set out in 1916 as part of the endurance expedition (1914–1917) with two companions to rescue the expedition members stranded on Elephant Island . The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 2014 after Thoralf Sørlle (1875-1939), Norwegian manager of the Stromness whaling station , who received Shackleton, Frank Worsley and Thomas Crean after their march.
Web links
- Sørlle Peak . Entry in the database of the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (English)