Briggs Peak () is an isolated, conical mountain, high, on the northeast side of the

Wordie Ice Shelf The Wordie Ice Shelf () was a confluent glacier projecting as an ice shelf into the SE part of Marguerite Bay between Cape Berteaux and Mount Edgell, along the western coast of Antarctic Peninsula. In March 2008, the British Antarctic Survey r ...

Antarctic Peninsula The Antarctic Peninsula, known as O'Higgins Land in Chile and Tierra de San Martín in Argentina, and originally as Graham Land in the United Kingdom and the Palmer Peninsula in the United States, is the northernmost part of mainland Antarctic ...

. It was first roughly surveyed by the British Graham Land Expedition, 1936–37, and photographed by the

Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition The Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (RARE) was an expedition from 1947–1948 which researched the area surrounding the head of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica. Background Finn Ronne led the RARE which was the final privately sponsored exp ...

, November 1947 (trimetrogon air photography). It was surveyed from the ground by the

Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) is the United Kingdom's national polar research institute. It has a dual purpose, to conduct polar science, enabling better understanding of global issues, and to provide an active presence in the Antarctic on ...

in 1949 and 1958, and named by the

UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee (or UK-APC) is a United Kingdom government committee, part of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, responsible for recommending names of geographical locations within the British Antarctic Territory (BAT) and ...

after Henry Briggs, the English mathematician who, with John Napier, was responsible for the invention of logarithms, about 1614.

References

* * Briggs Peak is also mentioned in the anime Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood as "Fort Briggs" Mountains of Graham Land Fallières Coast {{FallièresCoast-geo-stub