Harrison Passage (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Harrison Passage (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Passage
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
between Larrouy Island and Tadpole Island to W, and Straggle Islands and Graham Coast to E, was photographed from the air by FIDASE, 1956-57, and charted by an RN Hydrographic Survey Unit in co-operation with FIDS, 1957-58; in conjunction with the name Maskelyne Passage (q.v.), named after John Harrison (1693-1776), English horologist who gave the first definitive solution to the problem of determining longitude at sea (APC, 1959a p.7; BA chart 3573, 26.viii.1960). Paso Harrison (Chile. IHA, 1974, p.149).
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