Harris Point is a rocky coastal point along the west side of the Ross Ice Shelf

Ross Ice Shelf

The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica . It is several hundred metres thick. The nearly vertical ice front to the open sea is more than 600 km long, and between 15 and 50 metres high above the water surface...

, located 6 nautical miles (11 km) south of Young Head

Young Head

Young Head is a prominent rock headland, 350 m, marking the north side of the entrance to Beaumont Bay on the west side of the Ross Ice Shelf named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for CWO Victor Young, U.S. Navy, member of the Mobile Construction Battalion party at Little America V,...

 at the south side of Beaumont Bay

Beaumont Bay

Beaumont Bay is an ice-filled reentrant on the west side of the Ross Ice Shelf between Young Head and Harris Point, into which Dickey Glacier flows. It was discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition and named for Admiral Sir Lewis Beaumont, Royal Navy, an Arctic explorer who took a...

. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending names for features in Antarctica...

 (US-ACAN) for Herman D. Harris, a chief hospital corpsman with U.S. Navy Squadron VX-6

VX-6

Air Development Squadron Six was a United States Navy Air Development Squadron based at McMurdo Station, Antarctica...

. Harris built a sick bay

Bay

A bay is an area of water mostly surrounded by land. Bays generally have calmer waters than the surrounding sea, due to the surrounding land blocking some waves and often reducing winds. Bays also exist as an inlet in a lake or pond. A large bay may be called a gulf, a sea, a sound, or a bight...

 at South Pole Station during U.S. Navy Operation Deepfreeze 1961.