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The Edson Hills () are a group of mainly ice-free hills lying south of Drake Icefall and west of Union Glacier in the
Heritage Range The Heritage Range is a major mountain range, long and wide, situated southward of Minnesota Glacier and forming the southern half of the Ellsworth Mountains in Antarctica. The range is complex, consisting of scattered ridges and peaks of mo ...
of the
Ellsworth Mountains The Ellsworth Mountains are the highest mountain ranges in Antarctica, forming a long and wide chain of mountains in a north to south configuration on the western margin of the Ronne Ice Shelf in Marie Byrd Land. They are bisected by Minneso ...
in Antarctica. They were named by the
University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota Twin Cities (historically known as University of Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint ...
Ellsworth Mountains Party, 1962–63, for Dean T. Edson, a
United States Geological Survey The United States Geological Survey (USGS), founded as the Geological Survey, is an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior whose work spans the disciplines of biology, geography, geology, and hydrology. The agency was founded on Mar ...
topographic engineer with the party.


Features

Geographical features include:
* Buggisch Peak * Drake Icefall * Elvers Peak *
Hyde Glacier Hyde Glacier () is a short glacier flowing east through the Edson Hills to join Union Glacier, in the Heritage Range, Antarctica. It was mapped by the United States Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Navy air photos, 1961–66, and was n ...
* Kosco Peak * Lester Peak * Union Glacier


References

Hills of Ellsworth Land {{EllsworthLand-geo-stub