Briggs Hill

A bluff type elevation 1,245 metres (4,085 ft) high which forms the south extremity of the Briggs Hill massif and the north point of entrance to Descent Pass (leading to Ferrar Glacier).

Named in 1992 by the United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Ronald L. Todd, cartographer, United States Geological Survey (USGS); member of the USGS field team which established geodetic control in the Hudson Mountains, Jones Mountains, Thurston Island and Farwell Island areas of Walgreen Coast and Eights Coast during the 1968-69 season.

A ridge, for the most part ice covered, which extends east-northeast from Royal Society Range between Descent Pass and Covert Glacier.

Named in 1992 by US-ACAN after Richard A. Pearsall, cartographer, USGS; member of the USGS geodetic control party to the Ellsworth Mountains in the 1979-80 season; additional work during the season at South Pole Station, determining the true position of the Geographic South Pole.

Conspicuous rock outcrops on the northwest flank of Blue Glacier, 5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) west of Hobbs Peak.

The southernmost nunatak in Granite Knolls, 1 nautical mile (1.9 km; 1.2 mi) south of the main massif and marginal to Blue Glacier.

Named by US-ACAN after Klaus G. Anderson (d. 1991), civil engineering technician, USGS, 1960-90; member of the United States Geological Survey (USGS) field team which established geodetic control in the Hudson Mountains, Jones Mountains, Thurston Island and Harwell Island areas of Walgreen Coast and Eights Coast during the 1968-69 season.

team in the 1988-89 season to establish new geodetic controls and observe old stations in the McMurdo Dry Valleys; relocated the position of the Geographic South Pole.

Briggs Hill towards southwest corner of map