Briggs Peak

Briggs Peak
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height	1120 m
location	Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula
Coordinates	68 ° 59 ′ 0 ″ S , 66 ° 42 ′ 37 ″ W Coordinates: 68 ° 59 ′ 0 ″ S , 66 ° 42 ′ 37 ″ W

The Briggs Peak is a 1,120 m (according to the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee only 340 m ) high, conical and isolated mountain at the Fallières coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It rises on the northeast side of the Wordie Ice Shelf .

Participants in the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937), led by the Australian polar explorer John Rymill , carried out an initial rough survey between 1936 and 1937. Aerial photographs and Trimetrogon measurements were made in November 1947 with the American Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948). The Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey carried out ground surveys in 1949 and 1958. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the mountain on August 31, 1962 after the English mathematician Henry Briggs (1556-1630), who together with John Napier established logarithms in mathematics around 1614 .

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