Heilprin Glacier

Heilprin Glacier
Heilprin Gletscher
View of Heilprin Glacier
Location within Greenland
Type	Tidal outlet glacier
Location	Greenland
Coordinates	77°31′N 65°40′W / 77.517°N 65.667°W / 77.517; -65.667
Width	8 km (5.0 mi)
Terminus	Inglefield Fjord Baffin Bay
Status	Retreating[1]

Heilprin Glacier (Danish: Heilprin Gletscher), is a glacier in northwestern Greenland.^[2] Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.

This glacier was named by Robert Peary after geologist, paleontologist and naturalist Angelo Heilprin (1853 – 1907), curator of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, who took part in the Peary expedition to Greenland of 1891–92.^[3]

The Heilprin Glacier discharges from the Greenland Ice Sheet into the head of the Inglefield Fjord just east of the Harvard Islands and northeast of Quajaqqisaarsuaq. Its terminus lies between the Smithson Range nunatak that separates it from the Tracy Glacier to the north, and Nunatarsuaq, a plateau dotted with lakes to the south.^[2] Both neighboring glaciers drain roughly 12,000 km² (4,600 sq mi) of the Greenland Ice Sheet.^[1]

Although the Heilprin Glacier is contiguous to the Tracy Glacier, both glaciers have a different nature, a fact which has been a source of puzzlement for scientists for over a century.^[4]

• List of glaciers in Greenland
• Inglefield Fjord

• NASA - Decline of Two Glaciers in Northwest Greenland
• Identifying Spatial Variability in Greenland's Outlet Glacier Response to Ocean Heat
• The recent regimen of the ice cap margin in North Greenland Archived 2021-06-25 at the Wayback Machine

This Greenland location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

• v
• t
• e