Person

Harrison, Charles Turnball (1866 - 1914)

Born
1866
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Died
1914
At sea
Occupation
Antarctic explorer, Antarctic researcher and Biologist

Summary

Charles Harrison was a biologist whose early career was concerned with scientific surveying and botanical investigations largely on the west coast of Tasmania. In 1911 he joined the Australasian Antarctic Expedition as biologist and artist for the Western Base (Shackleton Ice Shelf, Queen Mary Land). He accompanied Frank Wild on his main eastern exploration and on other sledging trips. Harrison disappeared at sea when, as biologist on FIS Endeavour, the ship vanished while returning to Hobart from Macquarie Island. The glacier Harrison Ice Rises (Shackleton Ice Shelf) and Cape Harrison, both discovered during the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, were named in his honour.

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Chronology

1911 - February 1913
Career position - Biologist and artist, Western Base, Australasian Antarctic Expedition
November 1914 - December 1914
Career position - Biologist on board FIS Endeavour
1915
Award - Polar Medal (Silver)

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Archival resources

Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales

  • Charles Turnball Harrison - Records, 1911 - 1913, ML MSS 386; Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales. Details

South Australian Museum Archives

  • Charles Turnball Harrison - Records, 1911 - 1914, 84AAE and others; South Australian Museum Archives. Details

Published resources

Edited Books

  • Riffenburgh, Beau and de Boos, Crispin eds, The Antarctic diaries of Andrew Dougald Watson and Alexander Lorimer Kennedy together with the paintings and drawings of Charles Turnbull Harrison (Norwich, U.K.: Erskine Press, 2018), 382 pp. Details
  • Rossiter, Heather ed., Mawson's Forgotten men : the 1911-1913 Antarctic Diary of Charles Turnbull Harrisson (Sydney: Murdoch Books, 2011), 299 pp. Details

Resources

See also

  • Jensen, David, Mawson's remarkable men: the personal stories of the epic 1911-14 Australasian Antarctic Expediton (Sydeny: Allen and Unwin, 2015), 183 pp. Details

Gavan McCarthy [P004098] and Helen Cohn

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