Harrison Nunatak

Map of Thurston Island.

Satellite image of Thurston Island.

Harrison Nunatak (72°32′S 96°2′W / 72.533°S 96.033°W / -72.533; -96.033Coordinates: 72°32′S 96°2′W / 72.533°S 96.033°W / -72.533; -96.033) is a snow-covered nunatak, with rock exposure to the southeast, located 4 nautical miles (7 km) south of Savage Glacier in the extreme southeastern part of Thurston Island, Antarctica. It was discovered on helicopter flights from the USS Burton Island (AGB-1) and USS Glacier (AGB-4) during the U.S. Navy Bellingshausen Sea Expedition in February 1960, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Henry T. Harrison, Jr., a U.S. Weather Bureau meteorologist with the Byrd Antarctic Expedition in 1928–30.^[1]^[2]

Maps

Thurston Island – Jones Mountains. 1:500000 Antarctica Sketch Map. US Geological Survey, 1967.
Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), 1993–2016.

References

↑ "Harrison Nunatak". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2012-05-28.
↑ Alberts, Fred G., ed. (June 1995). Geographic Names of the Antarctic (PDF) (second ed.). United States Board on Geographic Names. p. 314. Retrieved 2012-04-05.

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