Eureka Glacier is a broad, gently sloping glacier

Glacier

A glacier is a large persistent body of ice that forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation over many years, often centuries. At least 0.1 km² in area and 50 m thick, but often much larger, a glacier slowly deforms and flows due to stresses induced by its weight...

, 18 nautical miles (33 km) long and 17 nautical miles (31 km) wide at its mouth, which flows westward from the west side of Palmer Land

Palmer Land

Palmer Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies south of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This application of Palmer Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between US-ACAN and UK-APC, in which the name Antarctic Peninsula was approved for the major peninsula of...

 into George VI Sound

George VI Sound

George VI Sound or Canal Jorge VI or Canal Presidente Sarmiento or Canal Seaver or King George VI Sound or King George the Sixth Sound is a major bay/fault depression, 300 miles long in the shape of the letter J, which skirts the east and south shores of Alexander Island, separating it from the...

. It is bounded on its north side by the nunatak

Nunatak

A nunatak is an exposed, often rocky element of a ridge, mountain, or peak not covered with ice or snow within an ice field or glacier. The term is typically used in areas where a permanent ice sheet is present...

s south of Mount Edgell

Mount Edgell

Mount Edgell is a mountain, 1,675 m, rising eastward of Cape Jeremy, the east side of the north entrance to George VI Sound, on the west coast of Antarctic Peninsula. Discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition under Charcot, 1908-10. Seen from a great distance and thought to be an island, he...

, on its south side by the Traverse Mountains

Traverse Mountains (Antarctica)

The Traverse Mountains of Antarctica are a group of almost ice-free mountains, rising to about , and including McHugo Peak, Mount Noel, Mount Allan and Mount Eissinger, between Eureka Glacier and Riley Glacier, east of Warren Ice Piedmont, in western Palmer Land...

 and Terminus Nunatak

Terminus Nunatak

Terminus Nunatak is a conspicuous nunatak, 670 m, standing between Frireka and Riley Glaciers and 0.5 nautical miles inland from George VI Sound, on the west coast of Palmer Land. This nunatak was first photographed from the air on November 23, 1935 by Lincoln Ellsworth, and was mapped from these...

, and at its head Prospect Glacier

Prospect Glacier

Prospect Glacier is a glacier between Kinnear Mountains and Mayer Hills, flowing north into Forster Ice Piedmont on the west coast of Antarctic Peninsula. First roughly surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition under Rymill...

 provides a route to Wordie Ice Shelf

Wordie Ice Shelf

The Wordie Ice Shelf was a confluent glacier projecting as an ice shelf into the SE part of Marguerite Bay between Cape Berteaux and Mount Edgell, along the western coast of Antarctic Peninsula....

. First surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition

British Graham Land Expedition

A British expedition to Graham Land led by John Lachlan Cope took place between 1920 and 1922. The British Graham Land Expedition was a geophysical and exploration expedition to Graham Land in Antarctica between 1934 to 1937. Under the leadership of John Riddoch Rymill, the expedition spent two...

 (BGLE) under Rymill and resurveyed in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS). The name expresses triumph of discovery and arose because the BGLE sledge party found their way to George VI Sound via this glacier in 1936.