Harris Hill (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Harris Hill (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Hill
This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
A bare rock hill, 901m, which is a southern outlier of Stratton Hills, standing at the head of Overflow Glacier and overlooking Ferrar Glacier just northward, in Victoria Land. Feature depicted on: NZ AntTopo50-MF10
Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) in 1992 after William M. Harris, cartographer, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), from 1971. Field team leader of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Royal Society Range Survey, 1983-84 season. At the South Pole the team repositioned the marker at the Geographic South Pole, completed the site survey plan for the new South Pole Station, and site surveys for the Clean Air Facility. Working from U.S. Coast Guard Cutter (USCGC) Polar Sea at the end of the season, obtained new position for Siple Island.
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