Heritage Range

Heritage Range
Location of Heritage Range in Western Antarctica
Dimensions
Length 160 km (99 mi)
Width 48 km (30 mi)
Geography
Location of Heritage Range in Antarctica
Continent Antarctica
State/Province Ellsworth Land
Range coordinates 79°45′S 83°00′W / 79.75°S 83°W / -79.75; -83Coordinates: 79°45′S 83°00′W / 79.75°S 83°W / -79.75; -83
Parent range Ellsworth Mountains
Borders on Sentinel Range
Map of northern Heritage Range
Map of southern Heritage 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.[1]

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

  • 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.

Features

Geographical features include:

Anderson Massif

Douglas Peaks

Dunbar Ridge

Edson Hills

Enterprise Hills

Founders Peaks

Smith Ridge

Other Founders Peaks features

Frazier Ridge

Gifford Peaks

Independence Hills

Liberty Hills (Antarctica)

Meyer Hills

Pioneer Heights

Gross Hills

Inferno Ridge

Nimbus Hills

Samuel Nunataks
Other Nimbus Hills features

Other Pioneer Heights features

Soholt Peaks

Watlack Hills

Webers Peaks

Other features

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Heritage Range". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved Nov 11, 2004.
  2. ↑ Gerald F. Webers, et al., Geology and Paleontology of the Ellsworth Mountains, West Antarctica (Geological Society of America, 1992), p. xi


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