Heim glacier
| Heim glacier | ||
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| location | Grahamland , Antarctic Peninsula | |
| length | 13 km | |
| Coordinates | 67 ° 27 ′ S , 66 ° 54 ′ W | |
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| drainage | Jones Canal | |
The Home Glacier is a glacier on the Loubet coast of Graham lands north of the Antarctic Peninsula . It flows south in the southeastern part of the Arrowsmith Peninsula to the icy Jones Canal . Together with the Antevs Glacier to the north, it forms a transverse depression that extends to the south-western section of the Lallemand Fjord .
The glacier was first sighted in 1936 during the British Graham Land Expedition (1934–1937) under the direction of the Australian polar explorer John Rymill . The Falkland Islands Dependencies Survey explored the lower section of the glacier in 1949 . He named the glacier after the Swiss geologist Albert Heim (1849–1937), author of the standard work Handbuch der Gletscherkunde published in 1885 .
Web links
- Home Glacier in the Geographic Names Information System of the United States Geological Survey (English)
- Heim Glacier on geographic.org (English)