Swann Glacier
| Swann Glacier | ||
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| location | Palmerland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 73 ° 52 ′ S , 62 ° 58 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Wright Inlet , Weddell Sea | |
The Swann Glacier is a large glacier in the Palmerland in the south of the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows east to Wright Inlet , which it reaches north of Mount Tricorn on the Lassiter Coast .
Participants of the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941) stationed on the East Base on Stonington Island discovered and photographed him from the air in December 1940. In 1947 arose in the wake of the US Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition (1947-1948) more aerial and in cooperation with the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey were measurements made on site. Expedition leader Finn Ronne named the glacier after William Francis Gray Swann (1884–1962), then director of the Barthol Research Foundationof the Franklin Institute and sponsor of the Ronnes research trip.
Web links
- Swann Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Swann Glacier on geographic.org (English)