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Heritage Range

Summary

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.[1]

Heritage Range
Dimensions
Length160 km (99 mi)[1]
Width48 km (30 mi)[1]
Geography
Heritage Range is located in Antarctica
Heritage Range
Heritage Range
Location of Heritage Range in Antarctica
ContinentAntarctica
RegionEllsworth Land
Range coordinates79°45′S 83°00′W / 79.75°S 83°W / -79.75; -83[1]
Parent rangeEllsworth Mountains
Borders onSentinel Range

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.[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 edit

  • Union Glacier. Scale 1:250 000 topographic map. Reston, Virginia: US Geological Survey, 1966.
  • Liberty Hills. Scale 1:250 000 topographic map. Reston, Virginia: US Geological Survey, 1966.
  • Antarctic Digital Database (ADD). Scale 1:250000 topographic map of Antarctica. Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR). Since 1993, regularly updated.
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    Map of northern Heritage Range
  •  
    Map of southern Heritage Range

Features edit

Geographical features include:

Anderson Massif edit

Douglas Peaks edit

Dunbar Ridge edit

Edson Hills edit

Enterprise Hills edit

Founders Peaks edit

Smith Ridge edit

Other Founders Peaks features edit

Frazier Ridge edit

Gifford Peaks edit

Independence Hills edit

Liberty Hills (Antarctica) edit

Meyer Hills edit

Pioneer Heights edit

Gross Hills edit

Inferno Ridge edit

Nimbus Hills edit

Samuel Nunataks edit
Other Nimbus Hills features edit

Other Pioneer Heights features edit

Soholt Peaks edit

Watlack Hills edit

Webers Peaks edit

Other features edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Heritage Range". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. Retrieved 11 November 2004.
  2. ^ Gerald F. Webers, et al., Geology and Paleontology of the Ellsworth Mountains, West Antarctica (Geological Society of America, 1992), p. xi

External links edit

  Media related to Heritage Range at Wikimedia Commons