The Heritage Range is a major mountain range, long and 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.
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.Gerald F. Webers, et al., Geology and Paleontology of the Ellsworth Mountains, West Antarctica (Geological Society of America, 1992), p. xi
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.
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.
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
Barrett Nunataks Bingham Peak Cagle Peaks Carnell Peak Charles Peak Cunningham Peak Dott Ice Rise Driscoll Glacier Dybvadskog Peak Founders Escarpment Fusco Nunatak Gould Spur Gowan Glacier Hall Peak Hercules Inlet Herrin Peak High Nunatak Hoinkes Peak Hutto Peak Landmark Peak Linder Peak Matney Peak Mhire Spur Minnesota Glacier Mount Bursik Mount Johns Mount Rodger Mount Twiss Mount Woollard Navigator Peak Planck Point Robinson Peak Rutford Ice Stream Schneider Glacier Thompson Nunataks Three Sails Unger Peak Weaver Nunataks White Escarpment Wilson Nunataks Zavis Peak
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