Briggs Glacier

Briggs Glacier

Briggs Glacier (coord|54|10|S|37|8|W|type:glacier) is a glacier between Mount Worsley and The Trident in central South Georgia, flowing northwest into Murray Snowfield. Charted as a glacier flowing into the head of Possession Bay by Lieutenant Commander J.M. Chaplin, Royal Navy, in 1929, and named for Able Seaman A.C. Briggs, one of the crew of the Discovery in 1925-27 and a member of Chaplin's survey party in 1928-30. During the SGS, 1955-56, the complicated area of glaciers and snowfields south of Possession Bay was for the first time surveyed in detail, and Briggs Glacier was located.


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