Toynbee 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...

 in northeast Alexander Island

Alexander Island

Alexander Island or Alexander I Island or Alexander I Land or Alexander Land is the largest island of Antarctica, with an area of lying in the Bellingshausen Sea west of the base of the Antarctic Peninsula, from which it is separated by Marguerite Bay and George VI Sound. Alexander Island lies off...

, 17 nautical miles (31 km) long and 5 nautical miles (9 km) wide, between the mountains of the Douglas Range

Douglas Range

Douglas Range is a sharp-crested range, with peaks rising to 3,000 metres, extending 120 km in a northwest-southeast direction from Mount Nicholas to Mount Edred and forming a steep east escarpment of Alexander Island within the British Antarctic Territory, overlooking the north part of...

 on the west and Mount Tyrrell

Mount Tyrrell

Mount Tyrrell is a mountain with two summits, the highest 1,310 m, standing 3 nautical miles inland from the east coast of Alexander Island on the east side and near the mouth of Toynbee Glacier. First photographed from the air in 1937 by the British Graham Land Expedition under Rymill...

 and Mount Tilley

Mount Tilley

Mount Tilley is a flat-topped, ice-capped mountain, 1,900 m, 7 nautical miles south of Mount Tyrrell and 3 nautical miles inland from George VI Sound in the east part of Alexander Island. Despite its height, it is best described as a foothill of the Douglas Range, from which it is separated by...

 on the east. It flows north from Mount Stephenson

Mount Stephenson

Mount Stephenson a mountain in Antarctica. It is located in the Douglas Range, standing at the heads of Toynbee Glacier and Sedgwick Glacier 8 miles west of George VI Sound, on the east side of Alexander Island within the British Antarctic Territory...

 to 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...

. First photographed from the air in 1937 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. Surveyed in 1948 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS) and named for Patrick A. Toynbee, FIDS air pilot at Stonington Island

Stonington Island

Stonington Island is a rocky island lying 1 mile northeast of Neny Island in the eastern part of Marguerite Bay, off the west coast of Graham Land. Stonington Island is located at . Stonington Island, 0.4 miles long from northwest to southeast and 0.2 miles wide formerly connected by a drifted snow...

in 1948 and 1949.