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Briggs Glacier ( 54 ° 10  S 37 ° 8  W ) is a glacier between Mount Worsley and The Trident in central South Georgia , flowing northwest into Murray Snowfield . It was charted as a glacier flowing into the head of Possession Bay in 1929 by 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 . Mount Worsley is a mountain , 1 , 105 m , on the west side of Briggs Glacier in South Georgia . It was surveyed by the South Georgia Survey in the period 1951 - 57 , and named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place - Names Committee ( UK - APC ) for Frank Arthur Worsley ( 1872  1943 ), skipper of the " Endurance " on 1914 - 16 Imperial Trans - Antarctic Expedition . Worsley accompanied Ernest Shackleton in the " James Caird " from Elephant Island to King Haakon Bay , South Georgia , and made the overland crossing with him to Stromness whaling station . The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland , commonly known as the United Kingdom ( UK ) or Britain , is a sovereign country in western ___MASK90___ . Lying off the north - western coast of the European mainland , it includes the island of Great Britain ( the name of which is also loosely applied to the whole country ), the north - eastern part of the island of Ireland , and many smaller islands . Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that shares a land border with another sovereign statethe Republic of Ireland . Apart from this land border , the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean , with the North Sea to its east , the English Channel to its south and the Celtic Sea to its south - south - west , giving it the 12th - longest coastline in the world . The Irish Sea lies between Great Britain and Ireland . With an area of , the UK is the 78th - largest sovereign state in the world and the 11th - largest in ___MASK90___ . It is also the 21st - most populous country , with an estimated 65 . 1 million inhabitants . Together , this makes it the fourth most densely populated country in the European Union . The Royal Navy ( RN ) is the United Kingdom ' s naval warfare force . Although warships were used by the English kings from the early medieval period , the first major maritime engagements were fought in the Hundred Years War against the kingdom of France . The modern Royal Navy traces its origins to the early 16th century ; the oldest of the UK ' s armed services , it is known as the Senior Service . Elephant Island is an ice - covered mountainous island off the coast of ___MASK68___ in the outer reaches of the South Shetland Islands , in the Southern Ocean . Its name was given by early explorers sighting elephant seals on its shores . The island is situated north - northeast of the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula , westsouthwest of South Georgia , south of the Falkland Islands , and southeast of Cape Horn . It is within the Antarctic claims of Argentina , Chile and the UK . Brazil has two shelters on the island , Goeldi and Wiltgen , supporting the work of up to six researchers each during the summer .