Prospect Glacier is a 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...

 between Kinnear Mountains

Kinnear Mountains

Kinnear Mountains is a small group of mountains, more than 875 m, standing west of Prospect Glacier at the south margin of Wordie Ice Shelf, on the west coast of Antarctic Peninsula. Discovered and roughly surveyed in 1936 by the British Graham Land Expedition under Rymill. The name was proposed...

 and Mayer Hills

Mayer Hills

Mayer Hills is a low, mainly ice-covered hills with steep N.-facing slopes but rather featureless summits, about 900 m, lying south of Forster Ice Piedmont, Antarctic Peninsula, between Prospect Glacier and Mount Leo. First roughly surveyed from the ground by British Graham Land Expedition ,...

, flowing north into Forster Ice Piedmont

Forster Ice Piedmont

The Forster Ice Piedmont is an ice piedmont lying landward of the Wordie Ice Shelf, along the west coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.The piedmont is formed by the confluence of Airy, Seller, Fleming and Prospect Glaciers and is about 25 miles long from north to south and 12 miles wide...

 on the west coast of Antarctic Peninsula

Antarctic Peninsula

The Antarctic Peninsula is the northernmost part of the mainland of Antarctica. It extends from a line between Cape Adams and a point on the mainland south of Eklund Islands....

. First roughly 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. In 1954 the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) gave the name Prospect Pass to a col

Mountain pass

A mountain pass is a route through a mountain range or over a ridge. If following the lowest possible route, a pass is locally the highest point on that route...

 between Eureka Glacier

Eureka Glacier

Eureka Glacier is a broad, gently sloping glacier, 18 nautical miles long and 17 nautical miles wide at its mouth, which flows westward from the west side of Palmer Land into George VI Sound...

 and the glacier here described. During resurvey of the area by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) in 1958, the col was found to be an indeterminate feature, while this glacier is well marked and requires a name.