Administratively Jøkel Bay and its surroundings belong to the Northeast Greenland National Park.

The bay was named after an old Norse word for glacier —Icelandic: Jökull— by the ill-fated Denmark expedition.

Jøkel Bay stretches for about 140 kilometers from north to south in the King Frederick VIII Land shore.

All along the shore of the bay the Greenland ice sheet reaches down to the sea between skerries and the coast is broken down into two alignments of small islands.

[3] The Pic de Gerlache, an important landmark for the first explorers of the area, rises from a nunatak a few kilometers inland in the central zone of the bay.