Heilprin Glacier

Heilprin Glacier, also called Heilprin Gletscher, is a glacier in northwestern Greenland that flows from the Greenland Ice Sheet into the head of Inglefield Fjord. Its terminus lies just east of the Harvard Islands, in a severe coastal setting of fjord water, rock, and ice. Robert Peary named it for Angelo Heilprin, a geologist, paleontologist, naturalist, and member of Peary’s 1891–92 Greenland expedition. At its front, the glacier lies between the Smithson Range nunatak to the north and Nunatarsuaq to the south. Although contiguous with Tracy Glacier, Heilprin has long been recognized as behaving differently and has figured in studies of Greenland’s changing outlet glaciers.

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