 It flows northeast to Bellingshausen Sea between Mounts Palmer and Mount Feury.First roughly delineated from air photos taken by U.S. Navy Operation Highjump, 1946–47.Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) for Stephen Sikorski, electronics technician on USS "Glacier", who assisted in setting up an automatic weather station on Thurston Island during the United States Navy Bellingshausen Sea Expedition in February 1960.