Harrisson Ice Rises

Harrisson Ice Rises (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

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

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Place ID: 6048
Name ID: 726

Feature type: Ice rise

Origin

This name originates from Australia. It is part of the Australian Antarctic Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

Two swellings of the shelf-ice where the Shackleton Ice Shelf rides over the underlying rocky ridge leading north from Cape Moyes, Queen Mary Land. Named by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition 1911-1914 for CT Harrisson who was a member of the expedition.

Named For

Location

Latitude:
66° 26' 55.5" S
-66.44875°
Accurate to 200m
Longitude:
96° 37' 42.0" E
96.62833°
Accurate to 200m
Altitude:
Not recorded
Unknown precision

Images

No images of this place could be found.

Map

Source

Location Method:
Topographic data
Source Name:
Unknown
Source Identifier:
Metadata ( AAT_Coastline_2003 - Australian Antarctic Territory Coastline 2003 )
Source Scale:
1:50000
Source Institution:
Australian Antarctic Division
Source Person:
Brolsma
Source Publisher:
Geoscience Australia - National Mapping
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

None

Approval status

Status:
Official
Date approved:
7-Mar-1991

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