Harrisson Ice Rises
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| location | Queen Marie Land , East Antarctica | |
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| Coordinates | 66 ° 27 ′ S , 96 ° 39 ′ E | |
The Harrisson Ice Rises are ice domes off the coast of the East Antarctic Queen Marie Land . In the Shackleton Ice Shelf they loom 12 miles west-southwest of Henderson Island .
The eastern group of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer Douglas Mawson discovered them. Mawson named them after his biologist Charles Turnbull Harrison (1866-1914).
Web links
- Harrisson Ice Rises in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Harrisson Ice Rises on geographic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Charles Turnbull Harrison. Short biography on the homepage of the Australian Antarctic Division (accessed December 27, 2017).