Mount Harry
| Mount Harry | ||
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| height | 1000 m | |
| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| Coordinates | 74 ° 13 '53 " S , 76 ° 37' 26" W | |
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Mount Harry is a 1000 m high mountain in the West Antarctic Ellsworthland . It rises 22 km southeast of FitzGerald Bluffs . He is the westernmost of a series of Nunatakkern , the southeast tower of the cliffs.
The American polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth photographed him on November 23, 1935 during an overflight. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) mapped it on the basis of its own surveys and aerial photographs of the United States Navy from 1961 to 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it in 1968 after the American topography engineer Jack L. Harry, who from 1967 was involved in surveying work by the USGS in Marie-Byrd-Land until 1968 .
Web links
- Mount Harry in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Mount Harry on geographic.org (English)