Bachtold Glacier is an Antarctic

Antarctic

The Antarctic is the region around the Earth's South Pole, opposite the Arctic region around the North Pole. The Antarctic comprises the continent of Antarctica and the ice shelves, waters and island territories in the Southern Ocean situated south of the Antarctic Convergence...

 glacier

Glacier

A glacier is a large persistent body of ice that forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. At least 0.1 km² in area and 50 m thick, but often much larger, a glacier slowly deforms and flows due to stresses induced by its weight...

 flowing north from Mount Chaudoin

Mount Chaudoin

Mount Chaudoin is an abrupt mountain rising to about in the west part of the Gonville and Caius Range, Victoria Land. The mountain forms part of the divide between Bachtold Glacier and the head of Griffiths Glacier. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 2007 after YNC Robert...

, Gonville and Caius Range

Gonville and Caius Range

Gonville and Caius Range are a range of peaks, 1,000 to 1,500 m, between Mackay Glacier and Debenham Glacier in Victoria Land. First mapped by the British Antarctic Expedition under Scott. Named for Gonville and Caius College, of Cambridge University, the alma mater of several members of the...

, into the lower part of Cotton Glacier

Cotton Glacier

Cotton Glacier is a glacier about long on the south side of the Clare Range, flowing eastward between Sperm Bluff and Queer Mountain, in Victoria Land. It was discovered by the Western Geological Party, led by Thomas Griffith Taylor, of the British Antarctic Expedition, 1910–13, and named by...

. The glacier drains the broad slopes between Killer Ridge

Killer Ridge

Killer Ridge is a dark ridge rising over 1,000 m between Crisp and Miller Glaciers in the Gonville and Caius Range, in Victoria Land. Charted by the British Antarctic Expedition and named after the killer whale, whose outline the ridge is said to resemble....

 and Red Ridge

Red Ridge

Red Ridge is a ridge just west of Robson Glacier in the Gonville and Caius Range, in Victoria Land. The descriptive name was given by Frank Debenham of the British Antarctic Expedition during his plane table survey in 1912....

. It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names

The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names is an advisory committee of the United States Board on Geographic Names responsible for recommending names for features in Antarctica...

 after Harry W. Bachtold, US Navy, who at the time was a member of the construction crew which built the original Little America V Station and the original Byrd Station

Byrd Station

Byrd Station refers to a research station established by the United States during the International Geophysical Year by the U.S. Navy during Operation Deep Freeze II in West Antarctica at 80°, 120°W...

 in the 1955–57 pre-IGY

International Geophysical Year

The International Geophysical Year was an international scientific project that lasted from July 1, 1957, to December 31, 1958. It marked the end of a long period during the Cold War when scientific interchange between East and West was seriously interrupted...

period.