Ellsworth Mountains

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Overview map of Antarctica with the Ellsworthgebirge

The Ellsworthgebirge (English Ellsworth Mountains ) is the highest mountain in Antarctica. It extends in a north-south direction over a length of about 350 km, is about 50 km wide and lies on the western edge of the Filchner -Ronne Ice Shelf in West Antarctica. Alongside a range of four-thousand of Mount Vinson, with 4892 m It contains the highest mountain of Antarctica.

The Ellsworthgebirge is divided by the Minnesota Glacier in two main chains, the northern Sentinel Range and the Heritage Range.

The highest mountains of the Ellsworthgebirges are:

All are located in the Sentinel Range.

Geologically it forms together with the Whitmoregebirge as Ellsworth - Whitmore Mountains block a unit.

The mountain was discovered by Lincoln Ellsworth on 23 November 1935 on the first Transantarctic flight from Dundee to Iceland Ross Ice Shelf and received from him for the time being the name Sentinel Range (of English sentinel -. Guardian ). As it turned out in the course of mapping by the USGS that they are two separate chains, the original name was limited to the higher northern, baptized the Southern Heritage Range and named the entire mountain after the discoverer.

Although the named also to Lincoln Ellsworth Mount Ellsworth is also in the Antarctic, but not in Ellsworthgebirge, but in the Queen Maud Mountains.

Source

• Ellsworthgebirge in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey