[1][3] Glyde Point is located on land on the south coast of the Clarence Strait which overlooks the Vernon Islands.

[7][1] The 2016 Australian census which was conducted in August 2016 reports that Glyde Point had no people living within its boundaries.

[2] In 2019, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported that consideration was being given to building a port facility within the locality at Glyde Point that could be used by the Royal Australian Navy and the US Marine Corps.

[9] This was proposed in response to the 99-year lease of Port Darwin to a company owned by a Chinese Communist Party-connected billionaire.

[10] Glyde Point is located within the federal division of Lingiari, the territory electoral division of Nelson and within the local government area of the Litchfield Municipality.