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Bowdoin Fjord

Bowdoin Fjord

Fjord in northern Greenland.

Bowdoin Fjord is a fjord in northern Greenland. To the south the fjord opens into the Inglefield Gulf of the Baffin Bay.[1]

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This fjord was named by Robert Peary after his alma mater, Bowdoin College.[2] It was the subject of paintings by Frank Wilbert Stokes at the end of the 19th century.[3]

Geography

Bowdoin Fjord runs in a roughly north–south direction with its mouth west of Cape Milne and 15 km west of Cape Ackland, in the northern shore of the middle reaches of the Inglefield Gulf.[4] Piulip Nunaa is the peninsula that separates this fjord from MacCormick Fjord to the west and northwest; Bowdoin Fjord forms its eastern coastline. To the east lies Prudhoe Land. There is an Inuit settlement on the western shore of the fjord roughly 3 km north of Cape Tyrconnel.[5]

The Bowdoin Glacier discharges from the Greenland Ice Sheet at the head of the Bowdoin Fjord.[6]

Map of Northwestern Greenland
19th century map of the Inglefield Gulf.

See also

References

  1. [1]
    GoogleEarth
  2. [2]
    Robert Neff Keely, Gwilym George Davis, In Arctic Seas: the Voyage of the Kite with the Peary Expedition, 2011 p. 373
  3. [3]
    Paintings by Frank Wilbert Stokes 1896
  4. [4]
    "Bowdoin Fjord". Mapcarta. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
  5. [5]
    Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 90
  6. [6]
    T. C. Chamberlin, Glacial Studies in Greenland. The Journal of Geology Vol. 5, No. 3 (Apr. - May, 1897), pp. 229-240. Published by: The University of Chicago Press


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