Administratively it lies in the Northeast Greenland National Park zone.

This glacier was first mapped in 1932 by Lauge Koch during the Three-year Expedition to East Greenland.

It was named after Swedish mineralogist, geographer and Arctic explorer Axel Hamberg (1863–1933).

[1] The Hamberg Glacier flows from the eastern side of the Greenland ice sheet in the west and swings to the NE to join Gerard de Geer Glacier.

[2] There is a small region of nunataks off the upper western section of the glacier.