Harris Point
| Harris Point | ||
 Map sheet showing Harris Point on the south side of Beaumont Bay |
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| Geographical location | ||
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| Coordinates | 81 ° 35 ′ S , 161 ° 32 ′ E | |
| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| coast | Shackleton coast | |
| Waters | Ross Ice Shelf | |
| Waters 2 | Beaumont Bay | |
The Harris Point is a rocky headland on the Shackleton Coast of the Antarctic Ross Dependency . It marks the south side of the entrance from the Ross Ice Shelf to Beaumont Bay .
The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names renamed it in 1965 by Herman David Harris (born 1918), chief medical officer of the United States Navy in the squadron VX-6, which in the context of Operation Deep Freeze 1961 a military hospital on the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station built would have.
Web links
- Harris Point in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Harris Point on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ John Stewart: Antarctica - An Encyclopedia . Vol. 1, McFarland & Co., Jefferson and London 2011, ISBN 978-0-7864-3590-6 , p. 700 (English).