Swithinbank Range
| Swithinbank Range | ||
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 Topographic map with the Swithinbank Range (center left) |
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| location | Ross Dependency , Antarctica | |
| part of | Churchill Mountains , Transantarctic Mountains | |
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| Coordinates | 81 ° 42 ′ S , 159 ° 0 ′ E | |
The Swithinbank Range is a small mountain range in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the Churchill Mountains of the Transantarctic Mountains , it extends in an easterly direction between the Donnally and Ahern glaciers to the Starshot glacier .
Participants in a campaign lasting from 1959 to 1960 as part of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition named him after the British glaciologist Charles Winthrop Molesworth Swithinbank (1926-2014), who was active on the Little America V station at this time .
Web links
- Swithinbank Range in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Swithinbank Range on geographic.org (English).