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 the south by Victoria Valley and the Victoria Upper and Victoria Lower Glaciers. 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. Johns College at Cambridge, England, with which several members of the British Antarctic Expedition 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 in Victoria Land. The ridge is long and rises to at Lanyon Peak. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 2005 after ice coring specialist Karl C. Kuivinen, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1974–2003; Field Operations Manager, Ross Ice Shelf 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 1974–99.

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 Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 2007 after the noted American geographer-geologist Armin K. Lobeck, 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 Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 2007 after Ernest Rutherford, 1st Baron of Nelson and Cambridge, a British physicist of New Zealand birth and 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.