The glacier was mapped during the 1912–13 Danish Expedition to Queen Louise Land led by J.P.

The name had been given by Koch's wife after "Borg", the farm of Egill Skallagrimsson in Iceland.

[3] Borgjøkel is broad and is one of the main glaciers in central Queen Louise Land.

It flows first from the Greenland ice sheet in the west by Trekanten, a 1,910-metre-high (6,266 ft) high nunatak,[4] then past Cloos Klippe, a cliff on the southern side, after which it bends roughly southwards in the Trefork Lake area, then past Kilen, a headland projecting north on the southwestern side of the glacier.

Borgjokel has its terminus near the Storstrømmen in the Bredebræ area at the eastern edge of Queen Louise Land.