Quartermain Glacier is a well-defined, highly-crevassed 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...

 on the north side of Fricker Glacier

Fricker Glacier

Fricker Glacier is a glacier, 10 nautical miles long, which lies close north of Monnier Point and flows in a northeast direction into the southwest side of Mill Inlet, on the east coast of Graham Land. Charted by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey and photographed from the air by the Ronne...

, from which it is separated in its upper reaches by Mount Kennett

Mount Kennett

Mount Kennett is a distinctive snow and rock mountain between Quartermain Glacier and Fricker Glacier on the east side of Graham Land. Features on this coast were photographed by several American expeditions: United States Antarctic Service , 1939–41; Ronne Antarctic Research Expedition ,...

. It flows from the plateau into Mill Inlet

Mill Inlet

Mill Inlet is an ice-filled inlet which recedes 8 miles in a northwest direction and is some 20 miles wide at its entrance between Cape Robinson and Monnier Point, along the east coast of Graham Land. It was charted by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1947 and named for Hugh Robert Mill...

 on the east coast of Graham Land

Graham Land

Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...

, and was named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) for Leslie B. Quartermain (Quartermain Mountains

Quartermain Mountains

Quartermain Mountains is a group of exposed mountains, about 20 miles long, typical of ice-free features of the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Victoria Land, located south of Taylor Glacier and bounded by Finger Mountain, Mount Handsley, Mount Feather and Tabular Mountain; also including Knobhead, Terra...

, Quartermain Point

Quartermain Point

Quartermain Point is a prominent point in the north part of Moubray Bay between Helm Point and Cape Roget. It was named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition , 1957–58, for L.B. Quartermain, president, New Zealand Antarctic Society, who took a close interest in the work of the...

, q.v.), 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...

 historian of the Antarctic and author of South to the Pole. The early history of the Ross Sea Sector (London, 1967).