Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)
Collated by Programma Nazionale di Ricerche in Antartide (Italy)
in the framework of the SCAR Standing Committee on Antarctic Geographic Information (SCAGI)
SCAR Gazetteer Information: Each place can have one or more entries in the SCAR Composite Gazetteer, dependant on its origin. By viewing an individual entry, you may see multiple references to the same place. SCAR uses a more general feature type coding, so each place will, in general, have multiple feature types.
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| Name | Latitude | Longitude | Feature Type |
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| Harrisson Ice Rises (AUS) | 66° 26' 55.5" S | 96° 37' 42.0" E | Ice rise |
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Name ID: 726
Place ID: 6048
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. |
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| Harrisson Ice Rises (RUS) | 66° 25' 00.0" S | 96° 34' 00.0" E | |
| Name ID: 118380 Place ID: 6048 | |||
| Harrisson Ice Rises (USA) | 66° 27' 00.0" S | 96° 39' 00.0" E | |
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Name ID: 126242
Place ID: 6048
A local swelling of the ice surface 12 mi WSW of Henderson Island, where the Shackleton Ice Shelf overrides an underlying obstruction. Discovered by the Eastern Sledge Party of the AAE (1911-14) under Douglas Mawson, who named the feature for Charles T. Harrisson, biologist with the expedition. |
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