In association with the names of glacial geologists grouped in this area, it was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee in 1971 after Charles Maclaren, a Scottish naturalist who in 1842 was the first to recognize the glacial control of sea level.
Michelle MacLaren | William de Bois Maclaren | The Master of the Monolith | Slab monolith, like the first sequence of ''2001: A Space Odyssey | Jim MacLaren | James Maclaren | Jack MacLaren | Clan MacLaren | Charles Maclaren | Archie MacLaren |