Heritage Range
| Heritage Range | ||
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| Highest peak | Mount Bursik ( 2500 m ) | |
| location | Ellsworthland , West Antarctica | |
| part of | Ellsworth Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 79 ° 45 ′ S , 83 ° 0 ′ W | |
 Topographic map of the Heritage Range |
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The Heritage Range , also known as the Wexler Mountains , is a 160 km long and 50 km wide mountain range in the West Antarctic Ellsworthland . It forms the southern half of the Ellsworth Mountains and is separated from the neighboring Sentinel Range by the Minnesota Glacier . The peaks do not reach the height of the Sentinel Range and are often separated from one another by glaciers; the highest is Mount Bursik with 2500 m .
The northern part was probably spotted for the first time by the US polar explorer Lincoln Ellsworth during his transantarctic flight on November 23, 1935. In December 1959, the geologists Edward Carl Thiel (1928-1961), John Campbell Craddock (1930-2006) and Edwin S. Robinson (* 1935) undertook a reconnaissance flight into this area as part of the United States Antarctic Program and landed on a glacier to the north the Heritage Range. University of Minnesota crews conducted geological surveys and geodetic surveys from 1962 to 1963 and 1963 to 1964. The entire mountain range was mapped by the United States Geological Survey using aerial photographs taken by the United States Navy between 1961 and 1966. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names renamed it in 1961 so as geographic objects (within the mountain range in memory of the cultural heritage of English heritage ) of the United States are named.
Web links
- Heritage Range in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Heritage Range on geographic.org (English)