It flows northwest and reaches the coast between Cape Williams and Cooper Bluffs.

[1] It was photographed by the Soviet Antarctic Expedition (SovAE) in 1958 and named for student navigator Ye.

[2] A separate study of metamorphic rocks recovered from near the glacier (1959–62) found evidence of thermal crystallisation.

Named by the United States Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Ronald R. Cooper, BUG, United States Navy, Chief Builder with the McMurdo Station winter party, 1967.

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