The Western Journey Party of the British Antarctic Expedition of 1910 determined that the upper and lower portions of what was then known as Ferrar Glacier are apposed, i.e., joined in Siamese-twin fashion north of Knobhead.

With this discovery Robert Falcon Scott named the upper portion for Thomas Griffith Taylor, geologist and leader of the Western Journey Party.

The rest of the world's glaciers are "wet-based," meaning they scrape over the bedrock, picking up and leaving obvious piles of debris (moraines) along their edges.

[2] Download coordinates as: The Taylor Glacier originates on the polar plateau to the west of Horseshoe Mountain and Depot Nunatak.

Nunatak, 1,980 metres (6,500 ft) high, standing at the west side of Cassidy Glacier and Quartermain Mountains.

Nearly vertical cliffs of columnar dolerite rise 150 metres (490 ft) above glacier level at the east end.

Named by US-ACAN in 1992 after Ursula B. Marvin, Smithsonian Astrophysical Laboratory, Cambridge, MA; field party member, Antarctic Search for Meteorites (ANSMET) expedition to Victoria Land, 1978–79 and 1981–82; field work at Seymour Island, 1984–85; member of the Advisory Committee to the Division of Polar Programs, NSF, from 1983.

Named by US-ACAN in 1992 after William A. Cassidy, Department of Geology and Planetary Science, University of Pittsburgh, who in 13 field seasons, 1976–90, led USARP teams in the investigation and collection of Antarctic meteorites from diverse sites through Victoria Land and southward to Lewis Cliff, adjacent to Queen Alexandra Range.

Named in 1992 by US-ACAN after Edward L. Fireman (d. 1990), physicist, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA; authority on the analysis and dating of extraterrestrial materials and space debris; from 1979 conducted investigations on the dating and composition of Antarctic meteorites and Antarctic ice samples, including deep core ice obtained at Byrd Station.

Mass of rocks immediately northwest of Cavendish Icefalls on the north side of the major bend in Taylor Glacier.

Sharply pointed feature, 1,670 metres (5,480 ft) high, the highest in the Solitary Rocks, on the north side of Taylor Glacier.

An ice-free basin, or valley, trending southeast between Solitary Rocks and Friis Hills, marginal to the north side of the bend of Taylor Glacier.

The lower east end of the valley is occupied by Simmons Lake and a lobe of ice from Taylor Glacier.

A cluster of ice-free hills, 6 nautical miles (11 km; 6.9 mi) in extent and rising to 1,750 metres (5,740 ft), at the north side of the bend in Taylor Glacier.

It continues northward between Cavendish Rocks and the west end of Kukri Hills as a medial moraine in lower Taylor Glacier.

The moraine was first observed by Lieutenant Albert B. Armitage, rnR, second in command of the BrnAE, 1901–04, who named it in association with Knobhead.

The reddish deposit was found in 1911 by the Australian geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor, who first explored the valley that bears his name.

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