Heilman glacier

Heilman glacier
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location	Ross Dependency , Antarctica
Mountains	Queen Elizabeth Range , Transantarctic Mountains
Coordinates	82 ° 37 ′ S , 160 ° 46 ′ E Coordinates: 82 ° 37 ′ S , 160 ° 46 ′ E
drainage	Nimrod Glacier

The Heilman Glacier is a glacier in the Antarctic Ross Dependency . In the northern part of the Queen Elizabeth Range of the Transantarctic Mountains, it flows from Mount Sandved in a north-westerly direction to the Nimrod Glacier .

The United States Geological Survey mapped it on the basis own Tellurometervermessungen and with the help of aerial photographs of the United States Navy from the years between 1960 and 1962. The Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names renamed it in 1966 to William L. Heilman, glaciologist of the United States Antarctic Research Program on of Roosevelt Island from 1961 to 1962.

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