It was discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition (BrNAE) under Robert Falcon Scott, 1901–04, who gave it this name because of its clear blue ice at the time of discovery.

Surveyed in 1957 by the New Zealand Blue Glacier Party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition (CTAE, 1956-58).

Named by the NZGB after Gary Ball (see Ball Peak) New Zealand mountaineer who climbed Mount Lister with an Italian field party, 1976-77, and camped on this glacier; field assistant with R. H. Findlay’s New Zealand Antarctic Research Program (NZARP) party to this area, 1980-81.

Named by US-ACAN in 1992 after J. Murray Mitchell (1928-90), climatologist with the United States Weather Bureau and successor agencies, 1955-86; project scientist on climatic change, ES A, 1965-74; senior research climatologist, NOAA, 1974 86; member, Polar Research Board, National Academy of Sciences, 1978-82 (Chairman of Committee on Polar Regions and Climatic Change, 1979-84); member, Advisory Committee to the Division of Polar Programs, NSF, 1988-90.

A glacier on the east side of the Royal Society Range, draining northeast from a large cirque immediately north of Mount Lister.

It derives its name from Mount Lister, and was surveyed in 1957 by the New Zealand Blue Glacier Party of the CTAE, 1956-58.

Named in 1992 by US-ACAN after Kathy L. Covert, cartographer, USGS; leader of the two person (satellite surveying, seismology) team at South Pole Station, winter party 1982; senior member of geodetic control party at Minna Bluff, Mount Discovery, White Island, and Beaufort Island, 1986-87 season.

[11] Glaciers entering from the right (east) flowing from the coastal range, include (from south to north) Gauss, Mollweide, Bonne and Cassini-

A group of meltwater ponds lying west and southwest of the base of Mount Kowalczyk on the surface of the Blue Glacier.

Piedmont glacier on the coast of Victoria Land, covering about 40 square nautical miles (140 km2; 53 sq mi) and lying just south of New Harbour.

Named by Taylor for Lieutenant Henry R. Bowers, who perished with Scott on the return journey from the South Pole.

[18] This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Geological Survey.