Briggs Peninsula (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Briggs Peninsula (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Peninsula
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
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W side of Inverleith Harbour, Parker Peninsula, Anvers Island, was charted by DI in 1927 when the name Briggs Point was applied to the N end of this feature, after Alfred Charles Briggs (1905-88), Able Seaman, RN, in Discovery, 1925-27, and in DI survey party, South Georgia, 1928-30; in Discovery II, 1931-33, 1933-35 and (as Second Engineer) 1937-39; with Marine Biological Association, Plymouth, 1939-65 (BA chart 3213, 14.i.1929; APC, 1955, p.6). Punta Briggs (Chile. DNH chart 510, 1947; Pierrou, 1970, p.217; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.55). Following air photography by FIDASE in 1956-57, the name Briggs Peninsula was applied to the whole feature (APC, 1959a, p.4; BA chart 3566, 16.x.1959). [Briggs Glacier and Briggs Point, South Georgia, are also named after A.C. Briggs (Hattersley-Smith, 1980b, p.24).] PenĂnsula Briggs (Argentina. AA, 1991, p. 9)
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