| Heritage Range | |
| Country Type: | Continent |
| Country: | Antarctica |
| Region: | Ellsworth Land |
| Parent: | Ellsworth Mountains |
| Border: | Sentinel Range |
| Length Km: | 160 |
| Width Km: | 48 |
| Range Coordinates: | -79.75°N -83°W |
| Map: | Antarctica |
| Map Size: | 250 |
The Heritage Range is a major mountain range, 1600NaN0 long and 480NaN0 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.[1]
The northern portion of the range was probably first sighted by Lincoln Ellsworth in the course of his trans-Antarctic flight of 23 November 1935. On 14 December 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 26 December.[1] [2]
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.[1]
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.[1]
Geographical features include:
See main article: Anderson Massif.
See main article: Douglas Peaks.
See main article: Dunbar Ridge.
See main article: Edson Hills.
See main article: Enterprise Hills.
See main article: Founders Peaks.
See main article: Smith Ridge.
See main article: Frazier Ridge.
See main article: Gifford Peaks.
See main article: Independence Hills.
See main article: Meyer Hills.
See main article: Gross Hills.
See main article: Inferno Ridge.
See main article: Nimbus Hills.
See main article: Samuel Nunataks.
See main article: Soholt Peaks.
See main article: Watlack Hills.
See main article: Webers Peaks.
