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 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.
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)