Fogg Highland is an ice-covered upland, 20 nautical miles (37 km) long and 10 nautical miles (18 km) wide, on the Black Coast

Black Coast

Black Coast is the portion of the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula between Cape Boggs and Cape Mackintosh. This coast was discovered and photographed from the air by members of the East Base of the U.S. Antarctic Service, 1939–41, on a flight of December 30, 1940...

, Palmer Land

Palmer Land

Palmer Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies south of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This application of Palmer Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between US-ACAN and UK-APC, in which the name Antarctic Peninsula was approved for the major peninsula of...

, Antarctica, terminating on the northeast in Cape Herdman

Cape Herdman

Cape Herdman is a broad ice-covered cape forming the south entrance point to Violante Inlet, on the Black Coast, Palmer Land. The cape was photographed from the air in 1940 by United States Antarctic Service ; rephotographed from the air in 1947 by Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition and, in...

 and bounded on the north by Violante Inlet

Violante Inlet

Violante Inlet is an ice-filled inlet 16 nautical miles long, in an east-west direction, and 12 to 15 nautical miles wide, lying between Cape Fanning and Cape Herdman along the east coast of Palmer Land. Discovered and photographed from the air in December 1940 by members of the United States...

 and on the south by Clowes Glacier

Clowes Glacier

Clowes Glacier is a glacier wide, which flows east to enter Mason Inlet, on the east coast of Palmer Land. It was discovered and photographed from the air in December 1940 by the United States Antarctic Service...

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The feature was photographed from the air by the United States Antarctic Service (USAS) in 1940, the Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition

Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition

The Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition was an expedition from 1947-1948 which researched the area surrounding the head of the Weddell Sea in Antarctica.-Background:...

 (RARE) in 1947, and the U.S. Navy, 1965–67; surveyed by the joint RARE-FIDS sledge party in November 1947. Named in 1981 by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after Gordon Elliott Fogg

Gordon Elliott Fogg

-Early life:He was born in Langar, Nottinghamshire and educated at Dulwich College and Queen Mary College, London.-Career:During WW2 he assisted in a national survey of seaweed resources and researched algaes used to make water soluble silk for parachutes to drop mines at sea...

, Professor of Marine Biology

Marine biology

Marine biology is the scientific study of organisms in the ocean or other marine or brackish bodies of water. Given that in biology many phyla, families and genera have some species that live in the sea and others that live on land, marine biology classifies species based on the environment rather...

, University College

University College

University College can refer to several institutions:- Canada :* University College, University of Toronto* University College of the North, The Pas, Manitoba* Booth University College, Winnipeg, Manitoba...

 of North Wales

North Wales

North Wales is the northernmost unofficial region of Wales. It is bordered to the south by the counties of Ceredigion and Powys in Mid Wales and to the east by the counties of Shropshire in the West Midlands and Cheshire in North West England...

, 1971–85, who conducted research in the Antarctic Peninsula

Antarctic Peninsula

The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost part of the mainland of Antarctica. It extends from a line between Cape Adams and a point on the mainland south of Eklund Islands....

 area in conjunction with British Antarctic Survey

British Antarctic Survey

The British Antarctic Survey is the United Kingdom's national Antarctic operation and has an active role in Antarctic affairs. BAS is part of the Natural Environment Research Council and has over 400 staff. It operates five research stations, two ships and five aircraft in and around Antarctica....

 (BAS) in 1966, 1974, and 1979; Chairman, BAS Scientific Advisory Committee, 1970-86.