Briggs Hill
Briggs Hill | ||
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height | 1210 m | |
location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
Mountains | Royal Society Range , Transantarctic Mountains | |
Coordinates | 77 ° 49 ′ 0 ″ S , 163 ° 0 ′ 0 ″ E | |
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Map sheet Ross Island from 1962 (new edition 1970), in the southwest corner the north end of the Royal Society Range with Briggs Hill |
The Briggs Hill is a 1,210 m high, distinctive and ice-free hill in the East Antarctic Victoria Land . It rises on the south side of the Ferrar Glacier between the confluences of the Descent and Overflow glaciers .
Participants of the Terra Nova Expedition (1910-1913) led by the British polar explorer Robert Falcon Scott mapped it. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1964 after the American meteorologist Raymond S. Briggs, who worked for the United States Antarctic Research Program in 1962 at the McMurdo station and in 1963 was the scientific director of this station.
Web links
- Briggs Hill in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Briggs Hill on geographic.org (English)