The terminus of Baudissin Glacier is located at the western side of Corinthian Bay, at Sealers Cove.

Click here to see a map of Baudissin Glacier and the northwestern coast of Heard Island.

Baudissin Glacier appears to have been first noted by a sketch in the narrative accompanying the scientific reports of the expedition of HMS Challenger in 1874 along the north side of the island.

[6] The German Antarctic Expedition under Erich von Drygalski, 1901–03, portrayed a single large glacier flowing into Corinthian Bay and named it after Admiral Count Friedrich Baudissin, a sponsor of the expedition.

[6] In 1948 the ANARE (Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions) determined that more than one glacier discharges into Corinthian Bay.