The McCoy Glacier is a glacier in the Waitaha / Canterbury region of the Te Waipounamu / South Island of Aotearoa New Zealand.
It has a latitude of -43.321061 and a longitude of 170.806857 and it’s status is: Official Assigned.
Name was in common usage when submitted by R W Willett, Director of the New Zealand Geological Survey in March 1962, to assist in the compilation of a catalogue of New Zealand glaciers. The glacier was first traversed by the guide J M Clarke, and J M Dennistoun and L M Earle on 28 February 1910. Julius von Haast gave the name to the McCoy River (now McCoy Stream) in the 1860s. The Australian Sir Frederick McCoy F.R.S. (1823-1899) was the palaeontologist to whom von Haast submitted his fossils.
It’s geographical description is noted as: Glacier flowing generally southerly from the McCoy Col and drains into McCoy Stream. Ramsay Survey District. NZTopo50-BW18 222012.