Heim Glacier

Heim Glacier is an eastern Greenland glacier that descends from the Greenland Ice Sheet and flows southeast to the head of Johan Petersen Fjord. About 6 kilometers north of Bruckner Glacier, it is separated near its terminus from that glacier by nunataks, rocky peaks protruding through the ice. Heim Glacier ends on the eastern side of the fjord’s head, where both glaciers release icebergs into the inner fjord. Named for Swiss geologist Albert Heim, who was noted for his work on glacial phenomena, it is one of the ice streams that feed Greenland’s deeply indented eastern fjord landscape.

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