Swinburne Ice Shelf
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The Swinburne Ice Shelf (77°10′S 153°55′WCoordinates: 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, Westarctica. The ice shelf is 20 miles long and 5 miles wide and extends from Fisher Island to the 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.