Charles Swithinbank

Charles Winthrop Molesworth Swithinbank (17 November 1926 - 27 May 2014)^[1] was a British glaciologist and expert in the polar regions who has six places in the Antarctic named after him. He received the Anders Retzius Medal in silver from the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography in 1966,^[2] the Patron's Medal from the Royal Geographical Society in 1971,^[3] and the Mungo Park Medal from the Royal Scottish Geographical Society in 1990.

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