Luke 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...

 at least 15 nautical miles (28 km) long, flowing northwest into the head of Leroux Bay

Leroux Bay

Leroux Bay is a bay 9 nautical miles long in a NW-SE direction and averaging 5 nautical miles wide, between Nunez Point and the narrow peninsula surmounted by Magnier Peaks, along the west coast of Graham Land. Discovered by the French Antarctic Expedition, 1903–05, and named by Charcot for...

 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...

. The glacier was first sighted and roughly surveyed in 1909 by the French Antarctic Expedition

French Antarctic Expedition

French Antarctic Expedition refers to several French expeditions in Antarctica.-First expedition:Yves-Joseph de Kerguelen-Trémarec was a French explorer....

 (FrAE). It was resurveyed in 1935-36 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) and later named for George L. Johnston, 1st Baron Luke

Baron Luke

Baron Luke, of Pavenham, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1929 for the businessman George Lawson Johnston. He was the second son of John Lawson Johnston, the founder of Bovril Ltd. the title is held by his grandson, the third Baron, who succeeded his father in 1996...

 of Pavenham, Chairman of Messrs. Bovril Ltd., who contributed toward the cost of the BGLE, 1934-37.