Briggs Peak
Briggs Peak (68°59′S 66°42′W / 68.983°S 66.700°W) is an isolated, conical mountain, 1,120 metres (3,670 ft) high, on the northeast side of 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.
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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"
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