Tait Glacier


Tait Glacier is a glacier about 4 nautical miles long on the southwest coast of James Ross Island, flowing southwest into Carlsson Bay. Probably first seen by Dr. Otto Nordenskjold in 1903. Surveyed by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1945. Named by United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee for Murdo F. Tait, FIDS meteorological observer at Hope Bay in 1952 and 1953.