Forel 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...

 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km) wide and 4 nautical miles (7 km) long, flowing southwest into Blind Bay

Blind Bay (Antarctica)

Blind Bay is a small bay forming the north-east extremity and head of Bourgeois Fjord and marking the junction of Fallières Coast and Loubet Coast, along the west coast of Graham Land...

, on the west coast of Graham Land

Graham Land

Graham Land is that portion of the Antarctic Peninsula which lies north of a line joining Cape Jeremy and Cape Agassiz. This description of Graham Land is consistent with the 1964 agreement between the British Antarctic Place-names Committee and the US Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names, in...

. 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. Its lower reaches were surveyed in 1949 by the Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey (FIDS), and the glacier named by them for Francois A. Forel, noted Swiss glacier physicist and author, and first President of the International Commission of Glaciers in 1894.