It is about 35 nautical miles (65 km; 40 mi) long, flowing from the plateau of Victoria Land west of the Royal Society Range to New Harbour in McMurdo Sound.

[1] The Ferrar Glacier flows 150 kilometres (93 mi) from the Taylor Dome east to a floating terminus in McMurdo Sound.

[2] Large-scale topographic features strongly affect the glacier's path, as the ice thins and flows over them.

At 95 kilometres (59 mi) upstream from the grounding line the ice thickness is reduced to 200 metres (660 ft), and at 39 kilometres (24 mi) from the grounding line it is reduced to about 40 metres (130 ft).

During the Last Glacial Maximum there were only insignificant changes in the upper reaches of the glacier, and during the present Holocene there was no pronounced thinning.

[3] The Ferrar Glacier originates in the Taylor Dome near the Antarctic Plateau, to the east of Mount Blackwelder.

[3] It flows northeast, and is fed by Tedrow Glacier just west of Table Mountain.

[4] The Ferrar Glacier turns east to flow past the steep Kukri Hills to the north and the Royal Society Range to the south.

A spectacular isolated nunatak at the head of Ferrar Glacier, between Mount Feather and Pivot Peak.

A cap of pale sandstone, with vertical walls, standing above a horizontal base of black dolerite, strongly suggests a Tibetan monastery.

It descends the southern side of Kukri Hills midway between Mount Coates and Sentinel Peak.

Named by the Western Journey Party led by Thomas Griffith Taylor of the BrAE (1910-13) under Scott.

Tedrow, USARP project leader for soil studies, who worked at McMurdo Station, 1961-62.

Named by US-ACAN in 1963 after Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota, which has sent researchers to Antarctica, and in association with nearby Rutgers Glacier.

Named by the US-ACAN in 1964 for Lieutenant John E. Zoller, United States Navy, chaplain with the winter party of 1957 at Little America V.[18]

Named by the US-ACAN in 1964 for Lieutenant Leon S. Darkowski, United States Navy, chaplain in 1957 at the Naval Air Facility on McMurdo Sound.

Named by the US-ACAN in 1964, for Lieutenant Commander Peter Bol, United States Navy, chaplain with the winter party of 1956 at the Naval Air Facility on McMurdo Sound.

John C. Condit, United States Navy, chaplain with the winter party of 1956 at the Naval Air Facility on McMurdo Sound.