Saint Johns Range () is a crescent-shaped mountain range about long, in Victoria Land. It is bounded on the north by the Cotton, Miller and Debenham Glaciers, and on the south by Victoria Valley and the Victoria Upper and

Victoria Lower Glacier Wilson Piedmont Glacier () is a large piedmont glacier extending from Granite Harbour to Marble Point on the coast of Victoria Land. Scheuren Stream takes meltwater from the glacier into the Bay of Sails, while South Stream flows southeastwa ...

s. Its eastern end is formed by a spur called

Lizards Foot Lizards Foot () is a rocky spur forming the east end of the Saint Johns Range Saint Johns Range () is a crescent-shaped mountain range about long, in Victoria Land. It is bounded on the north by the Cotton, Miller and Debenham Glaciers, and on t ...

. Named by the New Zealand Northern Survey Party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1956–58, which surveyed peaks in the range in 1957. Named for St. John's College at Cambridge, England, with which several members of the British Antarctic Expedition (1910–13) were associated during the writing of their scientific reports, and in association with the adjacent Gonville and Caius Range.

Kuivinen Ridge

Kuivinen Ridge () is a transverse ridge extending southwest–northeast across the Saint Johns Range between an unnamed glacier and the

Ringer Glacier Ringer Glacier () is a glacier, long, heading on the northeast flank of Saint Johns Range and flowing northeast to Miller Glacier, Victoria Land. Named in association with the distinctive ring-shaped moraine at its mouth, The Ringer (). The nam ...

in Victoria Land. The ridge is long and rises to at

Lanyon Peak Lanyon Peak () is a sharp rock peak east of Victoria Upper Glacier in the Saint Johns Range of Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names for Margaret C. Lanyon, a New Zealand national who for many years i ...

. It was named by the

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (ACAN or US-ACAN) is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending commemorative names for features in Antarctica. History The committee was established ...

in 2005 after ice coring specialist Karl C. Kuivinen, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), 1974–2003; Field Operations Manager,

Ross Ice Shelf The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica (, an area of roughly and about across: about the size of France). It is several hundred metres thick. The nearly vertical ice front to the open sea is more than long, and between hi ...

Project Management Office, UNL, for the 1974–1978 season; Director, Polar Ice Coring Office, UNL, 1979-1989 and 1994–2001; 15 summer field seasons in Antarctica, between 1968 and 2000; and 24 summer field seasons in Greenland and Alaska between 1974 and 1999.

Lobeck Glacier

Lobeck Glacier () is a glacier flowing northeast between Rutherford Ridge and Kuivinen Ridge in the Saint Johns Range of Victoria Land. About long, the glacier terminates upon rock cliffs overlooking Miller Glacier with insignificant, if any, flow entering it. Named by the

in 2007 after the noted American geographer-geologist

Armin K. Lobeck Armin Kohl Lobeck (1886-1958) was a noted American Cartographer, Geomorphologist and Landscape Artist. He was born in New York City on August 16, 1886, but his family moved to Haworth, New Jersey, three years later. Armin Lobeck was 21 years old wh ...

(1886-1958), Professor of Geology, Columbia University, from 1929 to 1954; He was the author of the textbook ''Geomorphology'', widely used in training geomorphologists active in Antarctica.

Rutherford Ridge

Rutherford Ridge () is a transverse ridge, long, extending southwest to northeast across the Saint Johns Range between Wheeler Valley and Lobeck Glacier, Victoria Land. The ridge rises to in Mount Rowland. It was named by the

in 2007 after Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron of Nelson and Cambridge (1871-1937), a winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 1908. His researches in radiation and atomic structure were basic to the later 20th-century developments in nuclear physics. In 1997 the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) formally designated the name Rutherfordium for the new chemical element with the atomic number 104.

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