Mount Carroll (Antarctica)

Mount Carroll (63°26′00″S 57°03′00″W / 63.43333°S 57.05000°W / -63.43333; -57.05000Coordinates: 63°26′00″S 57°03′00″W / 63.43333°S 57.05000°W / -63.43333; -57.05000) is a horseshoe-shaped mountain rising to 650 metres (2,130 ft), south of Hope Bay on the Trinity Peninsula. It was discovered and mapped by the Swedish Antarctic Expedition (1901-04) and surveyed by the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey (1945-47), and named in error Mount Carrel after Tom Carroll (b. 1864), Newfoundland boatswain of the ship Eagle, which participated in establishing the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) Hope Bay base in February 1945. The spelling has been amended to correct the original error.

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This article incorporates public domain material from the United States Geological Survey document "Mount Carroll" (content from the Geographic Names Information System).

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