Heritage Range Explained

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]

Maps

Features

Geographical features include:

Anderson Massif

See main article: Anderson Massif.

Douglas Peaks

See main article: Douglas Peaks.

Dunbar Ridge

See main article: Dunbar Ridge.

Edson Hills

See main article: Edson Hills.

Enterprise Hills

See main article: Enterprise Hills.

Founders Peaks

See main article: Founders Peaks.

Smith Ridge

See main article: Smith Ridge.

Other Founders Peaks features

Frazier Ridge

See main article: Frazier Ridge.

Gifford Peaks

See main article: Gifford Peaks.

Independence Hills

See main article: Independence Hills.

Meyer Hills

See main article: Meyer Hills.

Pioneer Heights

Gross Hills

See main article: Gross Hills.

Inferno Ridge

See main article: Inferno Ridge.

Nimbus Hills

See main article: Nimbus Hills.

Samuel Nunataks

See main article: Samuel Nunataks.

Other Nimbus Hills features

Other Pioneer Heights features

Soholt Peaks

See main article: Soholt Peaks.

Watlack Hills

See main article: Watlack Hills.

Webers Peaks

See main article: Webers Peaks.

Other features

Notes and References

  1. antarid. 6688. Heritage Range. 11 Nov 2004.
  2. Gerald F. Webers, et al., Geology and Paleontology of the Ellsworth Mountains, West Antarctica (Geological Society of America, 1992), p. xi