Name details

Swinburne Ice Shelf

Swinburne Ice Shelf (The name as it would appear in a gazetteer)

Swinburne Ice Shelf  (The name as it would appear on a map)

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New Zealand Gazetteer Id 140101

Feature type: Ice shelf

Origin

This name originates from New Zealand. It is part of the New Zealand Gazetteer and the SCAR Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica.

Names that other countries have for this feature:

Narrative

An ice shelf just north of the Alexandra Mountains in King Edward VII Land, at the south part of Sulzberger Bay. The ice shelf is approximately 30km long and 4-12km wide, extending southeast from Fisher Island to the White Islands.

Named For

The feature 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 Deep Freeze 1970 and 1971.

Location

Latitude:
77° 10' 00.1" S
-77.16670°
Unknown precision
Longitude:
153° 55' 00.1" W
-153.91670°
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Altitude:
49 m
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Images

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Map

Source

Location Method:
Unknown
Source Name:
0.5m Antarctic Imagery Mosaic, DigitalGlobe Inc 2018
Source Identifier:
102001001D408900
Source Scale:
Unknown
Source Institution:
Unknown
Source Person:
Unknown
Source Publisher:
Polar Geospatial Center
Remote sensing:
Not Applicable

Comments

Height at reference point

Approval status

Status:
Unknown
Date approved:
19-Dec-2019

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