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Briggs Glacier
Location of Briggs Glacier in South Georgia
Location	South Georgia
Coordinates	54°10′S37°8′W / 54.167°S 37.133°W /-54.167; -37.133
Thickness	unknown
Terminus	Murray Snowfield
Status	unknown

Briggs Glacier (54°10′S37°8′W / 54.167°S 37.133°W /-54.167; -37.133) is aglacier betweenMount Worsley andThe Trident in centralSouth Georgia, flowing northwest intoMurray Snowfield. It was charted as a glacier flowing into the head ofPossession Bay in 1929 byLieutenant CommanderJohn M. Chaplin,Royal Navy (1888–1977). Chaplin was survey officer aboardRRSDiscovery during theDiscovery Oceanographic Expedition of 1925–1927, and was later in charge of a hydrographic survey party in South Georgia, 1928–30.

Briggs Glacier was named forAble SeamanA.C. Briggs, one of the crew of RRSDiscovery in 1925–27 and a member of Chaplin's survey party in 1928–30. During theSouth Georgia Survey of 1955–1956, the complicated area of glaciers andsnowfields south of Possession Bay was for the first time surveyed in detail, and Briggs Glacier was re-located.

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