Shipton Ridge
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Shipton Ridge is the main ridge forming the northeastern arm of the Allan Hills
in Victoria Land
. Reconnoitered by the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program (NZARP) Allan Hills Expedition, 1964. They named it after Eric Shipton
, Himalayan mountaineer, because of his association with Professor N.E. Odell, for whom the adjacent Odell Glacier
is named.
Allan Hills
The Allan Hills are group of hills, mainly ice free and about long, lying just north-west of Coombs Hills near the heads of Mawson Glacier and Mackay Glacier in Oates Land and Victoria Land, Antarctica. They were mapped by the New Zealand party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition and...
in Victoria Land
Victoria Land
Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica bounded on the east by the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and on the west by Oates Land and Wilkes Land. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after the UK's Queen Victoria...
. Reconnoitered by the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program (NZARP) Allan Hills Expedition, 1964. They named it after Eric Shipton
Eric Shipton
Eric Earle Shipton CBE was a distinguished British Himalayan mountaineer.-Early years:Born in Ceylon in 1907 where his father, a tea planter, died before he was three years old. His mother buried her grief by taking Eric and his sister Marge and travelling constantly for the next five years...
, Himalayan mountaineer, because of his association with Professor N.E. Odell, for whom the adjacent Odell Glacier
Odell Glacier
Odell Glacier is a glacier draining northeast between Allan Hills and Coombs Hills into the upper Mawson Glacier in Oates Land. Named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Professor N.E. Odell, formerly of Otago University, New Zealand....
is named.