Swithinbank Range () is a small range from the

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Location

The Swithinbank Range extends eastward between Donnally and Ahern Glaciers to the west side of

Starshot Glacier Starshot Glacier () is a glacier 50 nautical miles (90 km) long, flowing from the polar plateau eastward through the Churchill Mountains, then north along the west side of Surveyors Range, entering the Ross Ice Shelf south of Cape Parr. So n ...

. It faces the

Surveyors Range Surveyors Range () is a long mountain range in the Churchill Mountains of Antarctica. Location Surveyors Range is long, extending north along the east side of Starshot Glacier from the Thompson Mountain area to the glacier's terminus at the Ro ...

on the east side of the Starshot Glacier. It was named by the

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(NZGSAE) (1959–60) for Charles W. Swithinbank, glaciologist that season at

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Geology

The bulk of the

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and Swithinbank Ranges are made up of the Shackleton Limestone formation, which lies unconformably on an unweathered surface cut across beds of the Goldie Formation north of the Nimrod Glacier. It includes the

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limestone that crops out between the Byrd and Nimrod Glaciers and in the upper Beardmore Glacier.

Glaciers

Ahern Glacier

. A small tributary glacier flowing east from the Churchill Mountains between Mount Lindley and Mount Hoskins to enter Starshot Glacier. Named by the Holyoake, Cobham, and Queen Elizabeth Ranges Party of the NZGSAE (1964-65) for B. Ahem, a member of the party.

Donnally Glacier

. A glacier about long in the Churchill Mountains, flowing east along the north side of Swithinbank Range to enter Starshot Glacier. Named by US-ACAN for Cdr. Edward W. Donnally, USN, officer in charge of Naval support personnel at McMurdo Station, winter 1962.

Features

Mount Gough

. The prominent mountain that forms the eastern portion of Swithinbank Range in the Churchill Mountains. The feature rises more than above the west side of Starshot Glacier where it is joined by Donnally Glacier. Named by the U.S. Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (1967) for R.P. Gough, Surveyor General of New Zealand.

Mount Lindley

. A mountain, high, standing on the west side of Starshot Glacier, north of Mount Hoskins. Discovered by the BrNAE (1901-04) and named for Lord Nathaniel Lindley, a member of the committee that made the final draft of instructions for the expedition.

Nearby features

Mount Massam

. A broad ice-covered mountain about west of Mount Lindley, in the Churchill Mountains. Named by the Holyoake, Cobham, and Queen Elizabeth Ranges Party of the NZGSAE (1964-65) for D. Massam, member of the party.

Mount Hoskins

. A mountain, high, standing on the west side of Starshot Glacier, south of Mount Lindley. Discovered by the BrNAE (1901-04) and named for Sir

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, a former Lord of the Admiralty and a member of the expedition Ship Committee.

Horseshoe Nunatak

. A horseshoe-shaped nunatak in the Churchill Mountains, located west of Mount Hoskins on the north side of the upper portion of

. The nunatak was charted and descriptively named by the

of 1964–65.

Reid Bluff

. A bluff rising to at the head of Donnally Glacier. Named in honor of B. E. Reid, a member of the 1959 Cape Hallett winter-over team, working as a biologist on the geomagnetic project.

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