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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
Length	160 km (99 mi)[1]
Width	48 km (30 mi)[1]
Geography
Location of Heritage Range in Antarctica
Continent	Antarctica
Region	Ellsworth Land
Range coordinates	79°45′S 83°00′W[1]
Parent range	Ellsworth Mountains
Borders on	Sentinel 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

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

External links

Media related to Heritage Range at Wikimedia Commons

На других языках

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[de] Heritage Range

Die Heritage Range, auch Wexler Mountains genannt, ist ein 160 km langer und 50 km breiter Gebirgszug im westantarktischen Ellsworthland. Er erhebt sich über der südlichen Zumberge-Küste und bildet die südliche Hälfte des Ellsworthgebirges. Dort wird er durch den Minnesota-Gletscher von der benachbarten Sentinel Range getrennt. Die Gipfel erreichen nicht die Höhe des Sentinel Range und sind oft durch Gletscher voneinander getrennt; der höchste ist Mount Bursik mit 2500 m.

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- [en] Heritage Range

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[it] Dorsale Patrimonio

Le dorsale Patrimonio (in inglese: Heritage Range) è una delle più estese catene montuose dell'Antartide. Situata sul margine occidentale della piattaforma glaciale Filchner-Ronne, sulla costa di Zumberge, nella Terra di Ellsworth, questa catena raggiunge una larghezza di 48 km ed è lunga circa 160 km in una configurazione nord-sud.

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