Evans Piedmont Glacier is a broad piedmont

Ice piedmont

An ice piedmont consists of "Ice covering a coastal strip of low-lying land backed by mountains."-References:*The Crossing of Antarctica by Sir Vivian Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary Cassell, London, 1958...

 ice sheet occupying the low-lying coastal platform between Tripp Island

Tripp Island

Tripp Island is an island in the south part of Tripp Bay along the coast of Victoria Land. Discovered by the British Antarctic Expedition which named this feature for Leonard O.H. Tripp of Wellington, New Zealand, a friend and supporter of Ernest Shackleton....

 and Cape Archer

Cape Archer

Cape Archer is a cape which marks the north side of the entrance to Granite Harbour on the coast of Victoria Land. Named by the Northern Party of the British Antarctic Expedition for W.W. Archer, chief steward of the expedition....

 in Victoria Land

Victoria Land

Victoria Land is a region of Antarctica bounded on the east by the Ross Ice Shelf and the Ross Sea and on the west by Oates Land and Wilkes Land. It was discovered by Captain James Clark Ross in January 1841 and named after the UK's Queen Victoria...

. Circumnavigated in 1957 by the New Zealand Northern Survey Party of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition

Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition

The 1955–58 Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition was a Commonwealth-sponsored expedition that successfully completed the first overland crossing of Antarctica, via the South Pole...

, 1956-58. Named after Petty Officer Edgar Evans, Royal Navy

Royal Navy

The Royal Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the British Armed Forces. Founded in the 16th century, it is the oldest service branch and is known as the Senior Service...

, of the British Antarctic Expedition

Terra Nova Expedition

The Terra Nova Expedition , officially the British Antarctic Expedition 1910, was led by Robert Falcon Scott with the objective of being the first to reach the geographical South Pole. Scott and four companions attained the pole on 17 January 1912, to find that a Norwegian team led by Roald...

 (1910–13), who was one of the South Pole Party under Captain Scott, and who lost his life on the Beardmore Glacier

Beardmore Glacier

The Beardmore Glacier in Antarctica is one of the largest glaciers in the world, with a length exceeding 160 km . The glacier is one of the main passages from the Ross Ice Shelf through the Queen Alexandra and Commonwealth ranges of the Transantarctic Mountains to the Antarctic Plateau, and was one...

on the return journey.