Balch 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...

 9 miles (14.5 km) long, 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...

, flowing southeast 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...

, to the south of Gould Glacier

Gould Glacier

Gould Glacier is a glacier, long, on the east coast of Graham Land, flowing south-east into Mill Inlet, to the west of Aagaard Glacier. It was first surveyed by the Falklands Islands Dependencies Survey in 1946–47, and named East Gould Glacier...

. It was first surveyed by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1946–47, and named East Balch Glacier. With West Balch Glacier it was reported to fill a transverse depression across Graham Land, but further survey in 1957 showed that there is no close topographical alignment between the two. The name Balch, for Edwin S. Balch, American Antarctic historian, has been limited to this glacier and an entirely new name, Drummond Glacier

Drummond Glacier

Drummond Glacier is a glacier 10 nautical miles long and 2 nautical miles wide, on the west coast of Graham Land, flowing west-northwest into Darbel Bay to the south of Hopkins Glacier. First roughly surveyed by Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey in 1946-47, and named West Balch Glacier...

, approved for the west glacier.