The glacier was chosen in 1957 as the New Zealand party's route from the Ross Ice Shelf to the Antarctic Plateau.

They traversed up the heavily crevassed glacier to a fuel cache deposited on the edge of the Victoria Land plateau by planes of the United States Navy and Air Force.

From there they travelled more than 600 miles (970 km) to the end station of the French 1958–59 traverse, then east toward the head of Tucker Glacier.

[2] The Skelton Glacier flows from the high plateau of Victoria Land down to the west edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.

The névé lies to the east of the Boomerang Range, north of Escalade Peak and south of Portal Mountain.

The immense névé of the Skelton Glacier, lying on the west side of the Royal Society Range.

Prominent icefalls extending in an arc some 15 nautical miles (28 km; 17 mi) from Portal Mountain to the north end of Warren Range.

Prominent ice-free nunatak, 1,760 metres (5,770 ft) high, lying close south of the main flow of Skelton Icefalls.

A prominent ice-free mountain, 1,845 metres (6,053 ft) high, standing 4 nautical miles (7.4 km; 4.6 mi) southeast of Angino Buttress and the Skelton Icefalls.

John J. Metschel, USN, commander of the icebreaker USS Staten Island in the Antarctic and the Arctic in 1962 and 1963.

A rock summit at c.1,235 metres (4,052 ft) being the northeastern part of Halfway Nunatak, near the centre of the upper Skelton Glacier.

Surveyed in 1957 by the New Zealand party of the CTAE (1956–58) and so named because of its staircase effect in being the key for the approach to the polar plateau.

It was provisionally named "Cascade Glacier" because of its broken lower icefalls by the New Zealand party of the CTAE, 1956–58.

Twin rock bluffs in the Lower Staircase of Skelton Glacier, about 6 nautical miles (11 km; 6.9 mi) east of Halfway Nunatak, in Victoria Land.

Prominent spur, 1,750 metres (5,740 ft) high, at the east side of Upper Staircase and the Skelton Glacier.

Named by US-ACAN after Rutgers University–New Brunswick, New Jersey, which has sent researchers to Antarctica, and in association with Johns Hopkins Ridge and Carleton Glacier.

John K. Allison, USN, officer in charge of the wintering-over detachment of Navy Squadron VX-6 at McMurdo Station, 1959.

Robert L. Dale, USN, officer in charge of the Squadron VX-6 winteringover detachment at McMurdo Station in 1960.

Pari Haupapa, a Maori name meaning ice cliffs, was applied by the New Zealand Geographic Board (NZGB) in 1994.

Surveyed in 1957 by the New Zealand party of the CTAE (1956–58) and so named because it resembles the shape of a clinker, a rectangular nail used in alpine boots, and because of its association with nearby Mount Tricouni.

Triangular rock bluff immediately south of Mount Tricouni, on the east side of Skelton Glacier in Victoria Land.

Explored in 1957 by the New Zealand party, of the CTAE (1956–58), and named in association with Clinker Bluff and Mount Tricouni.

Named by US-ACAN in 1963 for Chief Aviation Ordnanceman Michael P. Baronick, of U.S. Navy Squadron VX-6, who wintered at Williams Air Operating Facility at McMurdo Sound in 1956 and was in Antarctica several summer seasons.

The name was applied by the New Zealand party of the CTAE (1956–58) and refers to a 1957 attempt by an aircraft to land on the exceedingly broken ice at the foot of the glacier.

The bluff is distinguished by a dike consisting of igneous rock against a black background of the intruded sediments.

A bold, mainly ice-covered peninsula, 10 nautical miles (19 km; 12 mi) long and 5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) wide, at the east side of the mouth of Skelton Glacier in Victoria Land.

An ice-filled inlet at the terminus of Skelton Glacier, along the western edge of Ross Ice Shelf.

A high ridgelike island which rises above the Ross Ice Shelf at the west side of the mouth of Skelton Inlet.

It was first mapped as an island by the New Zealand party of the CTAE (1956–58) and named in association with nearby Cape Teall.

A prominent black rock peak which surmounts the northwest end of Teall Island, just south of the mouth of Skelton Glacier.