Carse Point is the western extremity of a rock massif

Massif

In geology, a massif is a section of a planet's crust that is demarcated by faults or flexures. In the movement of the crust, a massif tends to retain its internal structure while being displaced as a whole...

 with four peaks, the highest at 1250 metres (4,101 ft), standing at the south side of the mouth of Riley Glacier

Riley Glacier

Riley Glacier is a heavily crevassed glacier, 14 nautical miles long and 17 nautical miles wide, flowing westward from the west side of Palmer Land into George VI Sound between the Traverse Mountains and Mount Dixey. First sighted and surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition under...

, Palmer Land

Palmer Land

Palmer Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies south of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This application of Palmer Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between US-ACAN and UK-APC, in which the name Antarctic Peninsula was approved for the major peninsula of...

, and fronting on George VI Sound

George VI Sound

George VI Sound or Canal Jorge VI or Canal Presidente Sarmiento or Canal Seaver or King George VI Sound or King George the Sixth Sound is a major bay/fault depression, 300 miles long in the shape of the letter J, which skirts the east and south shores of Alexander Island, separating it from the...

. It lies separated from Mount Dixey

Mount Dixey

Mount Dixey is a mountain, 1,250 m, standing at the south side of Riley Glacier and 3 nautical miles northeast of Carse Point, on the west coast of Palmer Land. First photographed from the air on November 23, 1935 by Lincoln Ellsworth, and mapped from these photographs by W.L.G. Joerg...

 to the northeast by a low ice-filled col, and from Mount Flower

Mount Flower

Mount Flower is a mountain with two summits, the highest 1,465 m, standing 6.5 nautical miles inland from Carse Point and George VI Sound, on the west coast of Palmer Land. This mountain lies partially within the margin of area first photographed from the air on November 23, 1935 by Lincoln...

 to the east by a small glacier

Glacier

A glacier is a large persistent body of ice that forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. At least 0.1 km² in area and 50 m thick, but often much larger, a glacier slowly deforms and flows due to stresses induced by its weight...

. It appears that the massif of which this is the western extremity was first photographed from the air on November 23, 1935 by Lincoln Ellsworth

Lincoln Ellsworth

Lincoln Ellsworth was an arctic explorer from the United States.-Birth:He was born on May 12, 1880 to James Ellsworth and Eva Frances Butler in Chicago, Illinois...

 and mapped from these photographs by W.L.G. Joerg. The point was surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition

British Graham Land Expedition

A British expedition to Graham Land led by John Lachlan Cope took place between 1920 and 1922. The British Graham Land Expedition was a geophysical and exploration expedition to Graham Land in Antarctica between 1934 to 1937. Under the leadership of John Riddoch Rymill, the expedition spent two...

 (BGLE) under Rymill, and was named in 1954 for Verner D. Carse, member of the BGLE, 1934–37.