In association with the names of glacial geologists grouped in this area, named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after Nathaniel S. Shaler (1841-1906), American geologist, joint author with geographer William Morris Davis of Glaciers (Boston, 1881) and of papers on glacial geology, 1884-92.
William Morris Davis (1850–1934), American geographer, geologist and meteorologist
Richard Chorley, R. P. Beckinsale, and A. J. Dunn, The History of the Study of Landforms, Vol 2, The Life and Work of William Morris Davis (Methuen, 1973)
William Shakespeare | William Laud | Miles Davis | William Blake | William | William III of England | William Morris | William McKinley | Davis Cup | William Howard Taft | William Ewart Gladstone | William the Conqueror | William S. Burroughs | William Shatner | William Faulkner | Jefferson Davis | William Randolph Hearst | Bette Davis | William Wordsworth | William Tecumseh Sherman | Sammy Davis, Jr. | William Hogarth | Prince William, Duke of Cambridge | William Penn | William Jennings Bryan | Geena Davis | William Gibson | University of California, Davis | William Wilberforce | William James |