Reedy Glacier is a major glacier in Antarctica Marie Byrd Land, running over 100 nautical miles from the Antarctic Plateau to the Ross Ice Shelf between the Queen Maud Mountains and the Horlick Mountains. Six to twelve nautical miles wide, it drains about 25,000 square kilometers of the polar plateau, with its catchment reaching 200 kilometers south of the South Pole, and after about 140 kilometers it becomes the Mercer Ice Stream near the ice shelf. The US Geological Survey mapped it from surveys and Navy aerial photographs between 1960 and 1964, and the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names named it for Rear Admiral James R. Reedy, commander of the US Naval Support Force, Antarctica, from 1962 to 1965.
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