It drains an extensive area of the Antarctic plateau, and flows eastward to discharge into the Ross Ice Shelf.

[1] The Byrd Glacier flows eastward between the Britannia Range to the north and the Churchill Mountains to the south.

[4] The glacier was named by the NZ-APC after Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, United States Navy, American Antarctic explorer.

Discovered by the BrNAE (1901-04) and named for Lt. Michael Barne, RN, a member of the expedition, who with Sub-Lt. George F.A.

[3] Tributaries entering the left (north) side of the glacier from the Brittania Range are, from west to east:

Named by the US-ACAN for Réne O. Ramseier, glaciologist at McMurdo and´South Pole Stations, 1960-61 and 1961-62 seasons.

Named by US-ACAN for Verne E. Peckham, biologist, McMurdo Station winter party 1962, who with use of SCUBA gear made numerous dives under the sea ice of McMurdo Sound at Winter Quarters Bay and off Cape Evans.

Named by US-ACAN for Arthur L. DeVries, USARP biologist at McMurdo Station in the 1961-62 and 1963-64 summer seasons.

Named by US-ACAN, in association with nearby Byrd Glacier, for the USS Merrick, cargo ship (Central Group of Task Force 68) of USN Operation Highjump, 1946-47, led by Admiral Byrd.

Named by the US-ACAN in association with Byrd Glacier and Merrick Glacier, after Captain Joseph J. Hourihan, United States Navy, captain of USS Merrick, a cargo vessel of United States Navy Operation Highjump, 1946-47, led by Admiral Richard E.

Named by the US-ACAN for Ronald Sefton, ionospheric physicist, a member of the Byrd Station winter parties of 1962 and 1964.

It was named after Henry H. Brecher of the Byrd Polar Research Center, Ohio State University; he conducted Antarctic glaciological investigations for over 30 years, 1960–95, including determinations of surface velocities and elevations on Byrd Glacier.

A glacier flowing northwest from Chapman Snowfield, and located between Green Nunatak at the southwest and Keating Massif at the northeast.

He spent five field seasons (during 1984–93) in Antarctica working on mantle and crustal xenolith studies to understand the nature of the West Antarctic lithosphere.

Named in honor of Peter Skellerup (1918–2006), who sponsored the Antarctic wing at Canterbury Museum.

He was particularly keen on scientific research and donated money to build a specialist Antarctic Library at the Museum.

Three isolated nunataks in the névé of Byrd Glacier, 18 miles (29 km) west of Vantage Hill, Britannia Range.

Named by the NZ-APC for J. Bates, a member of CTAE who accompanied Sir Edmund Hillary to the South Pole.