Named by the Northern Party of the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE), 1962–63, for Lieutenant Colonel Ron Tinker, leader at Scott Base during that season.

Named by US-ACAN for John P. Burns, radioman with the McMurdo Station winter parties of 1963 and 1967.

Named by US-ACAN for Frazer W. Clausnitzer, ionospheric physics scientist at McMurdo Station, winter 1966.

The seaward extension of the Tinker Glacier, projecting into the northwest corner of Wood Bay.

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