Аннотация:History and development of McMurdo Sound glaciation, with dating of basic phases in the absolute scale of time, is presented. A method for calculating ice temperature and rate of accumulation, from shape and dimension data of a horizontal projection of a stationary glacier, is proposed. Based on studies of ancient moraines of Meserve Glacier, variations of air temperature and amount of atmospheric precipitation in McMurdo Sound during the last million years are calculated.