Fogg Highland

Fogg Highland
location	Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula
Coordinates	72 ° 47 ′ S , 60 ° 46 ′ W Coordinates: 72 ° 47 ′ S , 60 ° 46 ′ W

The Fogg Highland is a 30 km long and 15 km wide highland on the Black Coast of the Palmerland on the Antarctic Peninsula . It ends in the northeast at Cape Herdman and is bounded in the north by the Violante Inlet and in the south by the Clowes Glacier .

Aerial photographs were taken in 1940 by the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939-1941), in 1947 by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948) and by the United States Navy between 1956 and 1967. Scientists from the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition took part on a dog sled excursion together with the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in November 1947. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named the highlands in 1981 after the British marine biologist Gordon Elliott Fogg (1919-2005), who worked on the Antarctic Peninsula in collaboration with the British Antarctic Survey in 1966, 1974 and 1979 and from 1970 to 1986 the scientific Was a member of the survey advisory body.

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