It begins at 58°40′N 136°47′W / 58.667°N 136.783°W / 58.667; -136.783 and trends south to Taylor Bay, 46 miles (74 km) northwest of Hoonah.

It was named by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey for missionary and later governor Rev.

This advance was taken by Bengston (1962) as a sign of the glacier changing from a tidal to non-tidal one.

The Brady Glacier has an ELA (the line above which snow remains even after summer's end) of only 800 meters, one of the lowest in Alaska.

[1] This article about a location in the Hoonah-Angoon Census Area, Alaska is a stub.