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Heritage Range
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Dimensions
Length 160 km (99 mi)
Width 48 km (30 mi)
Geography
Heritage Range is located in Antarctica
Heritage Range
Location in Antarctica
Continent Antarctica
State/Province Ellsworth Land
Range coordinates 79°45′S 83°00′W / 79.75°S 83°W / -79.75; -83
Parent range Ellsworth Mountains
Borders on Sentinel Range

The Heritage Range is a major mountain range, 160 km (99 mi) long and 48 km (30 mi) wide, situated southward of Minnesota Glacier and forming the southern half of the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. The range is complex, consisting of scattered ridges and peaks of moderate height, escarpments, hills and nunataks, with the various units of relief set off by numerous intervening glaciers.

The northern portion of the range was probably first sighted by Lincoln Ellsworth in the course of his trans-Antarctic flight of November 23, 1935. On December 14, 1959, the southern range was seen for the first time in a reconnaissance flight from Byrd Station, made by Edward C. Thiel, J. C. Craddock and E. S. Robinson. The team landed at a glacier on Pipe Peak, in the northwestern part of the range, on December 26.

During the 1962–63 and 1963–64 seasons, the University of Minnesota expeditions made geologic and cartographic surveys of the range. The entire range was mapped by USGS from aerial photographs taken by the U.S. Navy, 1961–66.

The Heritage range was so named by US-ACAN because topographic units within the range have received names relating to the theme of American heritage.

Maps

Features

Geographical features include:

Anderson Massif

Anderson Massif

Douglas Peaks

Douglas Peaks

Dunbar Ridge

Dunbar Ridge

Edson Hills

Edson Hills

Enterprise Hills

Founders Peaks

Smith Ridge

Smith Ridge

Other Founders Peaks features

Founders Peaks

Frazier Ridge

Frazier Ridge

Gifford Peaks

Gifford Peaks

Independence Hills

  • Marble Hills
  • Horseshoe Valley
  • Morris Cliff
  • Mount Geissel
  • Mount Shattuck
  • Mount Simmons
  • Patriot Hills
  • Redpath Peaks

Liberty Hills (Antarctica)

  • Horseshoe Valley
  • Kelley Peak
  • Moulder Peak
  • Mount Rosenthal
  • Sponholz Peak

Meyer Hills

Meyer Hills

Pioneer Heights

Gross Hills

Gross Hills

Inferno Ridge

Inferno Ridge

Nimbus Hills

Samuel Nunataks

Samuel Nunataks

Other Nimbus Hills features

Nimbus Hills

Other Pioneer Heights features

Pioneer Heights

Soholt Peaks

Watlack Hills

Watlack Hills

Webers Peaks

Webers Peaks

Other features

  • Barrett Nunataks
  • Bingham Peak
  • Cagle Peaks
  • Carnell Peak
  • Charles Peak
  • Cunningham Peak
  • Dott Ice Rise
  • Driscoll Glacier
  • Dybvadskog Peak
  • Founders Escarpment
  • Fusco Nunatak
  • Gould Spur
  • Gowan Glacier
  • Hall Peak
  • Hercules Inlet
  • Herrin Peak
  • High Nunatak
  • Hoinkes Peak
  • Hutto Peak
  • Landmark Peak
  • Linder Peak
  • Matney Peak
  • Mhire Spur
  • Minnesota Glacier
  • Mount Bursik
  • Mount Johns
  • Mount Rodger
  • Mount Twiss
  • Mount Woollard
  • Navigator Peak
  • Planck Point
  • Robinson Peak
  • Rutford Ice Stream
  • Schneider Glacier
  • Thompson Nunataks
  • Three Sails
  • Unger Peak
  • Weaver Nunataks
  • White Escarpment
  • Wilson Nunataks
  • Zavis Peak

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: Cordillera Heritage para niños

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