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Harrison Nunatak (72°32′S 96°2′W) is a snow-covered nunatak, with rock exposure to the southeast, located 4 nautical miles (7 km) south of Savage Glacier in the extreme southeastern part of Thurston Island, Antarctica. It was discovered on helicopter flights from the USS Burton Island (AGB-1) and USS Glacier (AGB-4) during the U.S. Navy Bellingshausen Sea Expedition in February 1960, and was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Henry T. Harrison, Jr., a U.S. Weather Bureau meteorologist with the Byrd Antarctic Expedition in 1928–30.
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