The glacier was discovered in the course of the U.S. Navy LC-130 plane flight over the coast on November 5, 1967, and was plotted by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) from photographs obtained at that time.

The cliffed front of this feature was discovered in January 1915 by a British expedition led by Ernest Shackleton.

[1][2] In 1969, US-ACAN amended the name to "Stancomb-Wills Glacier Tongue".

The Stancomb-Wills Glacier Important Bird Area (74°06′15″S 23°05′31″W / 74.10417°S 23.09194°W / -74.10417; -23.09194) is a 352 ha site which has been designated an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports a breeding colony of about 5,500 emperor penguins, as estimated from 2009 satellite imagery, on fast ice on the north-eastern coast of the glacier tongue, some 60 km west of Lyddan Island.

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