Swope glacier
| Swope glacier | ||
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 Boyd Glacier map sheet from 1969, Swope Glacier to the right of center of the map |
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| location | Marie Byrd Land , West Antarctica | |
| Mountains | Ford Ranges | |
| Coordinates | 77 ° 25 ′ S , 146 ° 0 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Sulzberger Ice Shelf | |
The Swope Glacier is a glacier in Marie Byrd Land, West Antarctica . In the Ford Ranges it flows between Mount Woodward and Mount West in a westerly direction to the Sulzberger Ice Shelf on the Saunders coast .
Objects of the Ford Ranges were discovered during the first (1928–1930) and second Antarctic expedition (1933–1935) of the American polar explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd and during the United States Antarctic Service Expedition (1939–1941), also under Byrd's direction mapped. The glacier is named after Gerard Swope (1872–1957), President of General Electric , who provided Byrd's second expedition with a range of electrical equipment.
Web links
- Swope Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Swope Glacier on geographic.org (English)