| Heilprin Glacier | |
| Other Name: | Heilprin Gletscher |
| Type: | Tidal outlet glacier |
| Location: | Greenland |
| Map: | Greenland |
| Coordinates: | 77.5167°N -105°W |
| Mark: | Blue_pog.svg |
| Width: | 8km (05miles) |
| 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 12000sqkm 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]