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Charles Swithinbank was born on 17 November, 1926, is a British glaciologist. Discover Charles Swithinbank's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 87 years old?
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Charles Winthrop Molesworth Swithinbank, MBE (17 November 1926 – 27 May 2014) was a British glaciologist and expert in the polar regions who has six places in the Antarctic named after him.
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.
Having developed an interest in glaciology he became a research fellow at the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge, studying the distribution of sea ice and its effect on shipping in the Canadian Arctic, which involved the first hand observation of sea ice conditions from aboard the icebreaker Labrador in the Baffin Island region.
Swithinbank was awarded the Polar Medal with Clasp, Antarctic 1950–1952.
He was the first recipient of the new Mrs Patrick Ness Award of the Royal Geographical Society in 1954 for his research into Antarctic glaciology.
In 1959, he moved to the University of Michigan to take up an appointment as a research associate and lecturer, spending three summers in the Antarctic investigating the glaciers which feed the Ross Ice Shelf in New Zealand’s Ross Dependency.
He then returned to Britain to take up a further research appointment at the Scott Polar Research Institute, spending two summers and a winter in the Antarctic as the British representative at the Soviet Novolazarevskaya ice shelf station.
He received the Anders Retzius medal in silver from the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography in 1966, the Patron's Medal from the Royal Geographical Society in 1971, and the Mungo Park Medal from the Royal Scottish Geographical Society in 1990.
During this period he revisited the Antarctic in the summer of 1967-68 and took part as sea ice specialist in the transit of Canada’s Northwest Passage by the supertanker Manhattan in 1969, and in the return passage to the North Pole by the nuclear submarine Dreadnought in 1971.
He worked at the Scott Polar Research Institute until 1976, from 1971 as chief glaciologist, and from 1974 as head of the Earth Sciences Division of the British Antarctic Survey.
In 1976 he joined the British Antarctic Survey in Cambridge.
Every other season he spent several months in the Antarctic, primarily directing low level radio echo-sounding flights to measure the thickness of the ice within the British Antarctic Territory.
After his retirement from the Survey in 1986, he joined up with two pilots to locate suitable landing strips in Antarctica to enable flights to be inaugurated for the benefit of mountaineers, skiers and other tourists.
In 2013, he was conferred an MBE.
Swithinbank Moraine was named in his honour.
He had married Mary Fellows (née Stewart), with whom he had a son and a daughter.