Harris Ledge
| Harris Ledge | ||
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| location | Victoria Land , East Antarctica | |
| part of | Olympus Range in the Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 77 ° 28 ′ S , 161 ° 26 ′ E | |
Harris Ledge is a flattened and ice-free mountain ridge in East Antarctic Victoria Land . In the Olympus Range it rises north of Mount Hercules .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1997 after the US geologist Henry Harris of Illinois State University , who was involved in three campaigns for hydrogeological studies between 1973 and 1976 as part of the drilling project in the Antarctic dry valleys.
Web links
- Harris Ledge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Harris Ledge on geographic.org (English)