Heritage Range

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The Heritage Range is a major mountain range, Template:Convert long and Template:Convert 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.<ref name=gnis>Template:Cite gnis</ref>

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.<ref name=gnis/><ref>Gerald F. Webers, et al., Geology and Paleontology of the Ellsworth Mountains, West Antarctica (Geological Society of America, 1992), p. xi</ref>

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.<ref name=gnis/>

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.<ref name=gnis/>

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 northern Heritage Range
  • Map of southern Heritage Range
    Map of southern Heritage Range

Features

Geographical features include:

Anderson Massif

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Douglas Peaks

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Dunbar Ridge

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Edson Hills

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Enterprise Hills

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Founders Peaks

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Smith Ridge

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Other Founders Peaks features

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Frazier Ridge

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Gifford Peaks

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Independence Hills

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Liberty Hills (Antarctica)

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Meyer Hills

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Pioneer Heights

Gross Hills

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Inferno Ridge

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Nimbus Hills

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Samuel Nunataks

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Other Pioneer Heights features

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Soholt Peaks

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Watlack Hills

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Webers Peaks

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Other features

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References

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