Swinford Glacier

Swinford Glacier
Location of the Swinford Glacier (top right) on the western flank of the Beardmore Glacier ( satellite image )
location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Queen Alexandra Chain , Transantarctic Mountains
length	10 km
Coordinates	84 ° 45 ′ 0 ″  S , 164 ° 10 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 84 ° 45 ′ 0 ″  S , 164 ° 10 ′ 0 ″  E
drainage	Beardmore Glacier

The Swinford Glacier is a 10 km long glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Queen Alexandra chain, it flows between Mount Holloway and the Marshall Mountains to the Beardmore Glacier .

The southern group of the Nimrod Expedition (1907-1909), led by the British polar explorer Ernest Shackleton, discovered him. It is named after Shackleton's older of two sons, Raymond Swinford Shackleton (1905–1960).

See also

• List of geographical objects discovered during the Nimrod expedition

Web links

• Swinford Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
• Swinford Glacier on geographic.org (English)
• Swinford Glacier. In: Kenneth J. Bertrand and Fred G. Alberts, Geographic names of Antarctica , US Govt. Print. Off., Washington 1956, p. 296 (English)