Swithinbank Glacier
| Swithinbank Glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 58 ′ S , 66 ° 43 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Square Bay | |
The Swithinbank Glacier is a glacier on the Fallières coast of Graham Lands on the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows into the southeast corner of Square Bay .
The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey mapped it on the basis of surveys and aerial photographs from the years 1946 to 1959. The UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee named it in 1964 after the British glaciologist Charles Winthrop Molesworth Swithinbank (1926-2014), who worked on several British, New Zealand and US expeditions to Antarctica between 1949 and 1962.
Web links
- Swithinbank Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Swithinbank Glacier on geographic.org (English)