Swinburne Ice Shelf

Area map of Swinburne Ice Shelf.

Swinburne Ice Shelf (77°10′S 153°55′W / 77.167°S 153.917°W / -77.167; -153.917Coordinates: 77°10′S 153°55′W / 77.167°S 153.917°W / -77.167; -153.917), is an ice shelf just north of Edward VII Peninsula and the Alexandra Mountains in the southern part of Sulzberger Bay, Antarctica. The ice shelf is 20 miles long and 5 miles wide and extends from Fisher Island to White Islands. It was photographed from aircraft and mapped by the Byrd Antarctic Expedition (ByrdAE), 1928-30. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Captain H.W Swinburne, Jr., Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff, U.S. Naval Support Force, Antarctica, during Operation Deep Freeze 1970 and 1971.[1]

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  1. ↑ "Swinburne Ice Shelf". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. Retrieved 2009-11-13.

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