Harrison Bluff (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Harrison Bluff (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Bluff (2f)
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 pale-coloured trachyte headland, forming the seaward termination of Trachyte Hill, and marking the southern end of McDonald Beach on the western side of Mt Bird. A survey station marked by a corner of the bluff by E B Fitzgerald of the Cape Bird Party of the NZGSAE, 1958-59. Many skuas nest on the bluff. Large areas in this vicinity are covered by white patches of cyclic sea-salt formed by the evaporation of wind-blown sea-water. Named by the NZ Antarctic Place Names Committee for J Harrison, Mountaineer-Assistant of the above expedition.
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