Shipton Ridge () is the main ridge forming the northeastern arm of the
Allan Hills
The Allan Hills are a group of hills at the end of the Transantarctic Mountains System, located in Oates Land and Victoria Land regions of Antarctica.
They are mainly ice free and about long, lying just north-west of the Coombs Hills near th ...
in
Victoria Land
Victoria Land is a region in eastern Antarctica which fronts the western side of the Ross Sea and the Ross Ice Shelf, extending southward from about 70°30'S to 78°00'S, and westward from the Ross Sea to the edge of the Antarctic Plateau. It ...
. Reconnoitered by the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program (NZARP)
Allan Hills Expedition, 1964. They named it after
Eric Shipton
Eric Earle Shipton, CBE (1 August 1907 – 28 March 1977), was an English Himalayan mountaineer.
Early years
Shipton was born in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) in 1907 where his father, a tea planter, died before he was three years old. When he was eigh ...
, Himalayan mountaineer, because of his association with Professor
N.E. Odell, for whom the adjacent
Odell Glacier is named.
Ridges of Victoria Land
Scott Coast
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