Shipton Ridge

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 the ...

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. I ...

. Reconnoitered by the New Zealand Antarctic Research Program (NZARP)

Allan Hills Expedition Allan may refer to: People * Allan (name), a given name and surname, including list of people and characters with this name * Allan (footballer, born 1984) (Allan Barreto da Silva), Brazilian football striker * Allan (footballer, born 1989) (Al ...

, 1964. They named it after Eric Shipton, Himalayan mountaineer, because of his association with Professor

N.E. Odell NE, Ne or ne may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Neutral Evil, an alignment in the American role-playing game ''Dungeons & Dragons'' * New Edition, an American vocal group * Nicomachean Ethics, a collection of ten books by Greek philosopher ...

, for whom the adjacent

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 (NZ-APC) for Professor N.E. Odell, formerly of Otago Univer ...

is named. Ridges of Victoria Land Scott Coast {{ScottCoast-geo-stub