Anderson Massif

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The Anderson Massif is a striking, ice-covered mountain range in the northeast of the Heritage Range, the southern part of the Ellsworthgebirges in West Antarctica. The massif through measures about 19 ​​km and reaches a height of 2190 m above sea level.

The massif is circled on the north by Minnesota Glacier and to the south by Splettstößer Glacier, which meet in the east of the massif. Just north of the Anderson Massif is located on a slope bend of the Minnesota glacier crevasses an area that Bowie Crevasse Field.

At the peaks of the Massif Anderson 1580 m high peak Huggler the north and the 1910 m high peak Rullman belong in the South. In the eastern part of the rock massif of the narrow Grimes Glacier to the east, where it meets the Splettstößer Glacier flows.

In the late Cambrian ( Furongium ) there was volcanic activity in the area of ​​Anderson Massif.

The solid was named by the American Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after the geologist John J. Anderson, who led the expedition Ellsworthgebirge the University of Minnesota in the 1961/62 season, which explored this area.