The glacier was mapped during the 1952–54 British North Greenland expedition led by Commander James Simpson.

[2] The main base of the British expedition was built close to the southern end of the glacier.

In the 1980s the abandoned huts of the field camp were destroyed by a surge of the Britannia Glacier.

It flows roughly from north to south in northern Queen Louise Land, to the west of the western edge of the mighty Storstrommen and south of the Suzanne Glacier that flows by the Ymer Nunatak.

The Admiralty Glacier flows from the southwest into the western end of the lake.