Editing Ross Island (section)

==Major glaciers==
[[File:Ponting Barne Glacier.jpg|thumb|Barne Glacier around 1910]]
Major glaciers entering the sea or ice cap around the island include, clockwise from the south, [[Erebus Glacier]] and the [[Erebus Glacier Tongue]], [[Barne Glacier]], [[Shell Glacier]],  [[Terror Glacier (Antarctica)|Terror Glacier]] and [[Aurora Glacier (Antarctica)|Aurora Glacier]].{{sfn|Ross Island USGS}}

*Erebus Glacier is a glacier draining the lower southern slopes of [[Mount Erebus]]. It flows west to [[Erebus Bay]] where it forms the floating Erebus Glacier Tongue.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=224}}
*Shell Glacier is a western lobe of the Mount Bird icecap.  It descends steeply in the valley north of [[Trachyte Hill]] and [[Harrison Bluff]] in the center of the ice-free area on the lower western slopes of Mount Bird.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=669}}
*Barne Glacier is a steep glacier which descends from the west slopes of Mount Erebus and terminates on the west side of Ross Island between [[Cape Barne]] and [[Cape Evans]] where it forms a steep ice cliff.{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=46}}
*Terror Glacier is a large glacier between Mount Terra Nova and Mount Terror, flowing south into [[Windless Bight]].{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=740}}
*Aurora Glacier is a large glacier draining that part of Ross Island between Mount Erebus and Mount Terra Nova, and flowing south into [[McMurdo Ice Shelf]].{{sfn|Alberts|1995|p=34}}