Swann Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Swann Glacier (The name as it would appear on a map)
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Feature type: Glacier
This name originates from United Kingdom. It is part of the Gazetteer of the British Antarctic Territory and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.
Names that other countries have for this feature:
flowing E into Wright Inlet, Lassiter Coast, between Rivera Peaks and Playfair Mountains, was photographed from the air by USAS, 30 December 1940, but owing to an error in navigation wrongly located in c. 74°40'S 60°30'W (USHO, 1943, second photograph p.276 and p.277); further photographed from the air by RARE, 21 November 1947, located in 73°54'S 61°45'W, and named after Dr William Francis Gray Swann (1884-1962), American physicist; Director, Barthol Research Foundation of the Franklin Institute, Swarthmore, Pa, a contributor to RARE (Ronne, 1948b, map p.357, Fig. 17, p.373 and p.390; [in 73°53'S 61°48'W] APC, 1955, p.20; USHO chart 6638, 1955; DOS 601 sheets W 73 60 and 62, 1957; [co-ordinates corrected] USGS sketch map Ellsworth Land-Palmer Land, 1969; APC, 1977, p.32); surveyed from the ground in its lower reaches by FIDS-RARE from "Stonington Island" in December 1947. Lednik Suonna (Soviet Union. MMF chart, 1961). Glaciar Swann (Chile. IGM map 27, 1966). The glacier was further photographed from the air by USN, 1965-67, and mapped from air photographs by USGS.
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