Briggs Glacier

Briggs Glacier
Briggs Glacier
	South Georgia
Coordinates	54°10′S 37°8′W / 54.167°S 37.133°W
Thickness	unknown
Terminus	Murray Snowfield
Status	unknown

Briggs Glacier (54°10′S 37°8′W / 54.167°S 37.133°W / -54.167; -37.133) is a

Lieutenant Commander John M. Chaplin, Royal Navy (1888–1977). Chaplin was survey officer aboard RRS Discovery during the Discovery Oceanographic Expedition

of 1925–1927, and was later in charge of a hydrographic survey party in South Georgia, 1928–30.

Briggs Glacier was named for

Able Seaman A.C. Briggs, one of the crew of RRS Discovery in 1925–27 and a member of Chaplin's survey party in 1928–30. During the South Georgia Survey of 1955–1956, the complicated area of glaciers and snowfields

south of Possession Bay was for the first time surveyed in detail, and Briggs Glacier was re-located.

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