Charles Swithinbank

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Charles Swithinbank

Earth Sciences

#558

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#932

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Glaciology

#14

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#16

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According to Wikipedia, Charles Winthrop Molesworth Swithinbank, MBE was a British glaciologist and expert in the polar regions who has six places in the Antarctic named after him. Early life and education He was born in Pegu, British Burma, the son of Bernard Swithinbank of the Indian Civil Service, and educated at Bryanston School. He served for two years with the Royal Navy before going up to Pembroke College, Oxford to read Geography in 1946, graduating DPhil in 1955.

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Charles Swithinbank's Published Works

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Drift tracks of Antarctic icebergs (1977) (75)
Illustrated glossary of snow and ice (1966) (69)
A Glaciological Map of Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, Antarctica (1988) (51)
Arctic and Antarctic: A Modern Geographical Synthesis (1983) (49)
Ice Movement of Valley Glaciers Flowing into the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica (1963) (47)
Polar regions atlas (1979) (44)
Coastal-change and glaciological maps of Antarctica (1995) (44)
The Origin of Dirt Cones on Glaciers (1950) (40)
Glaciological research in the Antarctic Peninsula (1977) (39)
Giant icebergs in the Weddell Sea, 1967–68 (1969) (34)
Analysis of coastal change in Marie Byrd Land and Ellsworth Land, West Antarctica, using Landsat imagery (1998) (30)
Airfields on Antarctic glacier ice (1989) (28)
Faunal Remains on an Antarctic Ice Shelf (1961) (26)
Multispectral Digital Image Mapping of Antarctic Ice Features (1986) (26)
On the regime of the western part of the Ross Ice Shelf drainage system (1969) (22)
Coastal-change and glaciological map of the Trinity Peninsula area and south Shetland Islands, Antarctica: 1843-2001: Chapter A in Coastal-change and glaciological maps of Antarctica (2006) (22)
Airborne tourism in the Antarctic (1993) (20)
“Ice streams” (1954) (19)
Coastal-Change and Glaciological Map of the Larsen Ice Shelf Area, Antarctica, 1940-2005 (2008) (17)
Higher resolution satellite pictures (1973) (17)
Antarctic Earth Science (1973) (16)
A distant look at the cryosphere (1985) (16)
GLACIER SOUNDING IN THE POLAR REGIONS: A SYMPOSIUM, (1969) (15)
Coastal-change and glaciological map of the Ronne Ice Shelf area, Antarctica, 1974-2002 (2005) (14)
Major change in the map of Antarctica (1976) (12)
Coastal-change and glaciological map of the Eights Coast area, Antarctica, 1972-2001 (2004) (12)
Coastal-change and glaciological map of the Trinity Peninsula area and South Shetland Islalnds, Antarctica, 1843-2001 (2006) (11)
The valley glaciers that feed the Ross Ice Shelf (1964) (11)
Satellite photographs of the Antarctic Peninsula Area (1970) (11)
Fifty years of progress in understanding ice sheets (1987) (10)
Coastal-change and glaciological map of the Bakutis Coast, Antarctica (1997) (10)
Antarctic Airways: Antarctica's first commercial airline (1988) (10)
Coastal-change and glaciological map of the Bakutis Coast, Antarctica: 1972-2002 (2003) (9)
Proposed new terms and definitions for snow and ice features (1977) (8)
POTENTIAL AIRFIELD SITES IN ANTARCTICA FOR WHEELED AIRCRAFT. (1991) (8)
Foothold on Antarctica: The First International Expedition 1949-1952 Through the Eyes of Its Youngest Member (2000) (8)
Coastal-Change and Glaciological Map of the Amery Ice Shelf Area, Antarctica: 1961-2004 (2013) (7)
Forty Years on Ice: A Lifetime of Exploration and Research in the Polar Regions (1998) (7)
Snowdrifts around buildings and stores (1955) (7)
Non-government aircraft in the Antarctic 1989/90 (1990) (7)
Airborne Radio Echo Sounding by the British Antarctic Survey (1969) (7)
REMOTE SENSING OF ICEBERG THICKNESS (1978) (6)
ICE RUNWAYS NEAR THE SOUTH POLE (1989) (6)
Coastal-change and glaciological map of the Saunders Coast area, Antarctica; 1972-1997 (2003) (6)
A Year with the Russians in Antarctica (1966) (6)
Transits of the Northwest Passage, 1906–90 (1991) (6)
Towards an Inventory of the Great Ice Sheets (1983) (5)
Motor sledges in the Antarctic (1962) (5)
RADIO ECHO SOUNDING OF ANTARCTIC GLACIERS FROM LIGHT AIRCRAFT (2005) (5)
Coastal-change and glaciological map of the Ross Island area, Antarctica, 1962-2005 (2010) (5)
A new map of Alexander Island, Antarctica (1974) (5)
The Antarctic Connection (1983) (5)
Non-government aircraft in the Antarctic 1988/89 (1989) (5)
Coastal-Change and Glaciological Map of the Palmer Land Area, Antarctica: 1947-2009 (2009) (5)
Non-government aircraft in the Antarctic 1991/92 (1992) (4)
Composite satellite pictures of the polar regions (1971) (4)
Non-government aviation in Antarctica 1996/97 (1997) (4)
Satellite view of McMurdo Sound, Antarctica (1973) (3)
Non-government aircraft in the Antarctic 1990/91 (1992) (3)
Coastal-Change and Glaciological Map of the Northern Ross Ice Shelf Area, Antarctica: 1962-2004 (2007) (2)
Mechanical Transport of the Norwegian-British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition, 1949–52 (1953) (2)
The Arctic wintering of HMS Hecla and Fury in Prince Regent Inlet, 1824–25 (1964) (2)
Second Arctic voyage of SS Manhattan, 1970 (1970) (2)
VODKA ON ICE: A YEAR WITH THE RUSSIANS IN ANTARCTICA. Charles Swithinbank. 2002. Lewes: The Book Guild, ix + 165 p., illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 1-85776-646-6. £19.95 (2002) (2)
The Dynamics of Ice Shelves (2013) (2)
An Alien in Antarctica: Reflections upon Forty Years of Exploration and Research on the Frozen Continent (1998) (2)
The Quiet Land: The Antarctic Diaries of Frank Debenham, edited by June Debenham Back (1993) (2)
New intercontinental air route: Cape Town to Antarctica (1997) (2)
Non-government aircraft in the Antarctic 1992/93 (1993) (1)
AIRFIELDS ON ANTARCTIC GLACIER ICE. INTERIM REPORT (1989) (1)
Glaciers and landscape — A geomorphological approach: D.E. Sugden and B.S. John. Edward Arnold, London, 376 pp., £12.00 (1979) (1)
Non-government aviation in Antarctica 1999/2000 (2000) (1)
Non-government aviation in Antarctica 1998/99 (2000) (1)
John Edward Giles Kershaw (1990) (1)
Early Discoverers IX: Dr. E. A. Wilson’s Record of a Pit Section Dug in the Ross Ice Shelf in 1903 (1958) (1)
In a Crystal Land: Canadian Explorers in Antarctica, by Dean Beeby (1994) (0)
POL volume 19 issue 118 Front matter (1978) (0)
Remote sensing of ice and snow: Dorothy K. Hall and Jaroslav Martinec: Chapman and Hall, London and New York, 1985, x + 189 pp (1987) (0)
Comments on Canadian proposal for changes in WMO sea ice terminology (1965) (0)
Mapping the Canadian Arctic: Review@@@Glacial Map of Canada (1958) (0)
Terminology of snow surface forms (1954) (0)
SIR JAMES WORDIE, POLAR CRUSADER: EXPLORING THE ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC. Michael Smith. 2004. Edinburgh: Birlinn Ltd. xix + 371 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 1-84158-292-1. £25 (2005) (0)
Noel Wien: Alaska pioneer bush pilot . Ira Harkey. 1999. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, xxvii + 307 p, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 1-889963-16-X. $US24.95. (2000) (0)
Discussion on the Papers on Earth Sciences (1977) (0)
Parallels Between Antarctic Travel in 1950 and Planetary Travel in 2050 %28to Accompany Notes on "The Norwegian British-Swedish Antarctic Expedition 1949-52"%29 (2012) (0)
POL volume 23 issue 147 Front matter (1987) (0)
The Regime of the Western Part of the Ross Ice Shelf Drainage System (1966) (0)
Conference on the Use of Icebergs Cambridge, 1-3 April 1980). Annals of Glaciology, Vol. 1 (1982) (0)
Strand cracks (1956) (0)
Colin Bull (2010) (0)
Antarctica: Intelligence; Regional Photo Interpretation Series. Air Force Manual 200–30. U.S. Air Force (Department of the Air Force), 1933. v+171 pages, 343 plates, 2 maps. (1954) (0)
New building for British Antarctic Survey (1976) (0)
POL volume 25 issue 155 Cover and Front matter (1989) (0)
Radio-echo sounding by the British Antarctic Survey, 1972 (1972) (0)
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Shipping in the Northwest Passage (1988) (0)
POL volume 20 issue 129 Front matter (1981) (0)
Geophysical Investigations of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition: Discussion (1959) (0)
Valter Schytt 1920–1985 (1985) (0)
About the use of the expression “Indlandsis”: comments on Dr. Weidick’s letter (1967) (0)
Global Change Study of the Cryosphere of Antarctica. (1995) (0)
TRAVELLING PASSIONS: THE HIDDEN LIFE OF VILHJALMUR STEFANSSON. Gísli Pálsson. Translated from Icelandic by Keneva Kunz. 2003. Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England. xviii + 374 p, illustrated, hard cover. ISBN 1-58465-510-0. $US35.00 (2006) (0)
COURAGE SACRIFICE DEVOTION: THE HISTORY OF THE US NAVY ANTARCTIC AIR SQUADRON VXE-6, 1955–99. Noel Gillespie. 2006. West Conshohocken, PA: Infinity Publishing. vi + 513 p, illustrated, soft cover. ISBN 0-7414-2912-8. $US35.95 (2007) (0)
Glaciological delineation of the dynamic coastline of Antartica (1997) (0)
Guttorm Jakobsen (1996) (0)
Some Investigations into Solifluction Features in Norway: Discussion (1957) (0)

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