It was so named because of the recovery of the expedition's vehicles which repeatedly broke into bridged crevasses on this glacier during the early stages of the crossing of Antarctica.

[1] Dana Floricioiu and Irena Hajnsek of the German Aerospace Centre spoke on the radar data showing the interior of the Recovery Glacier at the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium in Cape Town, South Africa, in July 2009.

It was named after Hugh Blackwall Evans (1874-1975), Canadian naturalist with the British Antarctic Expedition, 1898–1900, led by Carsten Borchgrevink.

A group of rocky nunataks extending for 7 nautical miles (13 km; 8.1 mi) and marking the south side of the mouth of Recovery Glacier.

First seen from the air and visited in 1957 by the CTAE and so named because it was uncertain which route from the nunataks would lead furthest inland.