Name details

Mount Harrisson

Harrisson, Mount (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Mount Harrisson  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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Australian Antarctic Gazetteer Id 2571

Feature type: Mountain

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer.

Narrative

Named for CT Harrisson, biologist with the 1911-13 Australasian Antarctic Expedition, who spent a year in Queen Mary Land as a member of the Western base party. In November 1914 he visited Macquarie Island as biologist on the Commonwealth Fisheries Investigation vessel Endeavour and was lost with her when she disappeared without trace after leaving the Island.

Named For

CT Harrisson, biologist with the 1911-13 Australasian Antarctic Expedition, who spent a year in Queen Mary Land as a member of the Western base party.

Location

Latitude:
54° 35' 27.0" S
-54.59083°
Accurate to 30m
Longitude:
158° 51' 16.6" E
158.85462°
Accurate to 30m
Altitude:
270 m
Accurate to 5m

Images


©Julie McInnes 2008
Catalogue id
IA16752
Photographer
McInnes, Julie

Map

Source

Location Method:
Topographic data
Source Name:
Macquarie Island Vegetation and Drainage Structure Data Set,Mac Island Contours from AIRSAR Aug 2000
Source Identifier:
MIvegmap,macca_contour_gis
Source Scale:
1:25000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
Australian Antarctic Division
Remote sensing:
NASA AIRSAR DEM Metadata record - [macca_dem_gis] Macquarie Island Topopoly GIS Dataset. [macca_topopoly_gis]

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
11-Aug-1955

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