Swinburne Ice Shelf

The Swinburne Ice Shelf (77°10′S 153°55′W), is an ice shelf just north of Edward VII Peninsula and the Alexandra Mountains in the southern part of Sulzberger Bay. Although the ice shelf runs along the western border of Westarctica, it is not actually a part of Westarctica's territory.

The ice shelf is 20 miles long and 5 miles wide and extends from Fisher Island to the White Islands.

Discovery

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.