briggs, peak, isolated, conical, mountain, metres, high, northeast, side, wordie, shelf, antarctic, peninsula, first, roughly, surveyed, british, graham, land, expedition, 1936, photographed, ronne, antarctic, research, expedition, november, 1947, trimetrogon,. Briggs Peak 68 59 S 66 42 W 68 983 S 66 700 W 68 983 66 700 is an isolated conical mountain 1 120 metres 3 670 ft high on the northeast side of the Wordie Ice Shelf Antarctic Peninsula It was first roughly surveyed by the British Graham Land Expedition 1936 37 and photographed by the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition November 1947 trimetrogon air photography It was surveyed from the ground by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1949 and 1958 and named by the UK Antarctic Place Names Committee after Henry Briggs the English mathematician who with John Napier was responsible for the invention of logarithms about 1614 References edit nbsp This article incorporates public domain material from Briggs Peak Geographic Names Information System United States Geological Survey Briggs Peak is also mentioned in the anime Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood as Fort Briggs nbsp This Fallieres Coast location article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Briggs Peak amp oldid 964222207, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
