Harrison Nunatak
| Harrison Nunatak | ||
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| location | Thurston Island , Ellsworthland | |
| Coordinates | 72 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ S , 96 ° 2 ′ 0 ″ W | |
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The Harrison Nunatak is a snow-covered nunatak with rocky outcrops at the southeastern end in the extreme southeast of Thurston Island off the Eights coast of the west Antarctic Ellsworthland . It rises 6.5 km south of the Savage Glacier .
It was discovered in February 1960 during helicopter flights from the USCGC Burton Island and the USS Glacier as part of the United States Navy research trip to the Bellingshausen Sea . The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named him in 1960 after Henry Turner Harrison Jr. (1903-1991), meteorologist for the Weather Bureau on the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (1928-1930).
Web links
- Harrison Nunatak in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Harrison Nunatak on geographic.org (English)