Burnside Ridges () are three roughly parallel ridges running approximately northeast–southwest with their northeast extremities terminating at Matusevich Glacier. This area was photographed from the air by

U.S. Navy Operation Highjump Operation HIGHJUMP, officially titled The United States Navy Antarctic Developments Program, 1946–1947, (also called Task Force 68), was a United States Navy (USN) operation to establish the Antarctic research base Little America IV. The opera ...

in 1947. The feature was sketched and photographed on February 20, 1959, by Phillip Law, leader of the

Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions The Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions (ANARE ) is the historical name for the Australian Antarctic Program (AAp) administered for Australia by the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD). History Australia has had a long involv ...

(''Magga Dan'') expedition, and was named by the Antarctic Names Committee of Australia after Lieutenant Commander I.M. Burnside, Royal Australian Navy, hydrographic surveyor on the ''Magga Dan'' during the voyage.

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