Ball Glacier is a 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...

 7 miles (11.3 km) long with the head located between Mount Lister

Mount Lister

Mount Lister is a massive mountain, high, forming the highest point in the Royal Society Range of Victoria Land. It was discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition which named it for Lord Joseph Lister, President of the Royal Society, 1895–1900....

 and Mount Hooker on the east side of the Royal Society Range

Royal Society Range

The Royal Society Range is a majestic mountain range in Victoria Land, Antarctica. With its summit at , the massive Mount Lister forms the highest point in this range. Mount Lister is located along the western shore of McMurdo Sound between the Koettlitz, Skelton and Ferrar glaciers...

. The glacier flows northeast between Craw Ridge

Craw Ridge

Craw Ridge is a prominent ridge that trends northeast from Mount Lister along the south side of Lister Glacier, in the Royal Society Range, Victoria Land. Named by the New Zealand Antarctic Place-Names Committee after D. Craw, a member of a 1980-81 New Zealand Antarctic Research Program ...

 and Tasman Ridge

Tasman Ridge

Tasman Ridge is a ridge, 3 nautical miles long, located 10 nautical miles northeast of Mount Hooker, bounded on the northwest by Ball Glacier and on the southeast by Hooker Glacier, descending into Blue Glacier in the Royal Society Range, Victoria Land...

 into Blue Glacier

Blue Glacier (Antarctica)

Blue Glacier is a large glacier which flows into Bowers Piedmont Glacier about south of New Harbour, in Victoria Land, Antarctica. It was discovered by the British National Antarctic Expedition under Robert Falcon Scott, 1901–04, who gave it this name because of its clear blue ice at the...

. It was named by the New Zealand Geographic Board

New Zealand Geographic Board

The New Zealand Geographic Board is constituted under the New Zealand Geographic Board Act 2008, formerly under the New Zealand Geographic Board Act 1946. Although an independent institution, it is responsible to the Minister for Land Information...

 after Gary Ball, New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 mountaineer who climbed Mount Lister with an Italian field party, 1976–77, and camped on this glacier; he was field assistant with R.H. Findlay’s New Zealand Antarctic Research Program party to this area, 1980–81.