Swift Glacier (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)
Swift 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 S into Weddell Sea, W of Jefford Point (q.v.), S James Ross Island, was called in error Rabot Glacier (USHO, 1943, p.264) or Glaciar Rabot (Argentina. MM chart 103, 1949; Chile. IHA, 1974, p.237) after C. Rabot (Rabot Point, q.v.); surveyed by FIDS from "Hope Bay", 1958-61, and named descriptively Swift Glacier, as it is one of the most active glaciers on the island (APC, 1964, p.4; BAS 250 sheet SQ 21-22/1 (Ext.), 1-DOS 1974).
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