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]

Heritage Range
Dimensions
Length160 km (99 mi) [1]
Width48 km (30 mi) [1]
Geography
Location of Heritage Range in Antarctica
ContinentAntarctica
RegionEllsworth Land
Range coordinates79°45′S 83°00′W
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
  • 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.
  • Map of northern Heritage Range
  • Map of southern Heritage Range

Features

Geographical features include:

Anderson Massif
Main article: Anderson Massif

Douglas Peaks
Main article: Douglas Peaks

Dunbar Ridge
Main article: Dunbar Ridge

Edson Hills
Main article: Edson Hills

Enterprise Hills
Main article: Enterprise Hills

Founders Peaks
Main article: Founders Peaks

Smith Ridge
Main article: Smith Ridge

Other Founders Peaks features

Frazier Ridge
Main article: Frazier Ridge

Gifford Peaks
Main article: Gifford Peaks

Independence Hills
Main article: Independence Hills

Liberty Hills (Antarctica)
Main article: Liberty Hills

Meyer Hills
Main article: Meyer Hills

Pioneer Heights

Gross Hills
Main article: Gross Hills

Inferno Ridge
Main article: Inferno Ridge

Nimbus Hills
Main article: Nimbus Hills
Samuel Nunataks
Main article: Samuel Nunataks
Other Nimbus Hills features

Other Pioneer Heights features

Soholt Peaks
Main article: Soholt Peaks

Watlack Hills
Main article: Watlack Hills

Webers Peaks
Main article: Webers Peaks

Other features

References
  1. "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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