[4] The glacier is one of the main passages through the Transantarctic Mountains to the great polar plateau beyond, and was one of the early routes to the South Pole despite its steep upward incline.

In 1911–1912, Captain Scott and his Terra Nova Expedition team reached the South Pole by similarly climbing the Beardmore.

However, they reached the pole a month after Roald Amundsen and his team, who had chosen a route up the previously unknown Axel Heiberg Glacier.

The Wild Icefalls cross the northern stream, to the west of Skaar Ridge and Buckley Island.

[8] The Shackleton Icefalls extend across the southern stream, to the south of Mount Darwin and Buckley Island.

Named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE) (1961–62) in association with nearby Mount Wild.

[11] Tributaries from the left (northwest, Queen Alexandra Range) from west to east include Table Bay and Swinford Glacier near the head.

A glacier 8 nautical miles (15 km; 9.2 mi) long in Queen Alexandra Range, draining south from the slopes of Mount Kirkpatrick, Mount Dickerson and Barnes Peak and entering Beardmore Glacier just north of Adams Mountains.

A small, steep icefall on the south side, of Barnes Peak in Queen Alexandra Range, descending toward Beardmore Glacier.

Discovered by BrAE (1907–09) and named for the mother of Dr. Eric Marshall, a member of Shackleton's South Polar Party.

Named by the NZGSAE (1961–62) for Petty Officer Edgar Evans, a member of Scott's South Pole Party of the BrAE (1910-13), who died near here.

Discovered by the BrAE (1907–09) and named for Hugh Robert Mill, British geographer and Antarctic historian.

Discovered by the BrAE (1907–09) who named it for Sir John Scott Keltie, Secretary of the Royal Geographical Society, 1892-1915.

A valley glacier, 13 nautical miles (24 km; 15 mi) long, flowing north through the Commonwealth Range to enter the east side of Beardmore Glacier at a point 12 nautical miles (22 km; 14 mi) north of Mount Donaldson.

Emmert E. Ludeman, USN, officer in charge at the Naval Air Facility, McMurdo Sound, 1958.

Discovered by the Southern Polar Party of the BrAE (1907–09) and so named because the pass was used to enter Beardmore Glacier.

A bare rock point located 3 nautical miles (5.6 km; 3.5 mi) southwest of Mount Hope, near the mouth of Beardmore Glacier.

Discovered by the BrAE (1907–09) and named for Robert Calder Allen of the Franklin Relief Expedition to the Arctic.

Two rock nunataks 2 nautical miles (3.7 km; 2.3 mi) north-north-west of Airdrop Peak at the north end of Ebony Ridge.

The nunataks lie at the E side of the terminus of Beardmore Glacier and mark the northern termination of the Commonwealth Range at Ross Ice Shelf.

The descriptive name was recommended to US-ACAN by John Gunner of the Ohio State University Institute of Polar Studies, who, with Henry H. Brecher, measured a geological section here on Jan. 16, 1970.