Constable Bay ( da, Constable Bugt) is a
bay in the
Wandel Sea
The Wandel Sea ( da, Wandelhavet; also known as McKinley Sea) is a body of water in the Arctic Ocean, stretching from northeast of Greenland to Svalbard. It is obstructed by ice most of the year.
This sea is named after Danish polar explorer ...
, Northern
Greenland
Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland i ...
.
Administratively Constable Bay and its surroundings belong to the
Northeast Greenland National Park.
Constable Bay is the northernmost bay in the world. The area of the bay is uninhabited.
History
The bay was named in 1900 by
Robert Peary after James M. Constable, a prominent member of the
Peary Arctic Club in
New York.
[R. E. Peary, ''Report of RE Peary, CE, USN, on Work Done in the Arctic in 1898-1902'', 1903 - JSTOR]
Geography
Constable Bay lies in the northernmost shore of
Peary Land
Peary Land is a peninsula in northern Greenland, extending into the Arctic Ocean. It reaches from Victoria Fjord in the west to Independence Fjord in the south and southeast, and to the Arctic Ocean in the north, with Cape Morris Jesup, the nort ...
, in
Johannes V. Jensen Land, about west of
Bliss Bay
Bliss Bay ( da, Bliss Bugt) is a bay in the Wandel Sea, Northern Greenland. The area of the bay is uninhabited. Administratively Bliss Bay and its surroundings belong to the Northeast Greenland National Park.
Bliss Bay is clogged by fast ice year ...
and about east of
Cape Morris Jesup
Cape Morris Jesup ( da, Kap Morris Jesup) is a headland in Peary Land, Greenland.
Geography
Cape Morris Jesup is the northernmost point of mainland Greenland. It is from the geographic North Pole. It is located in Johannes V. Jensen Land, abo ...
. It is a fairly large indentation, with
Cape James Hill
Cape James Hill ( da, Kap James Hill) is a headland in the Wandel Sea, Arctic Ocean, northeast Greenland.
The cape was named by Robert Peary after James J. Hill, one of the members of the Peary Arctic Club in New York.
Geography
Cape James Hill ...
rising at its eastern end.
[''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute,'' p. 130] The bay is clogged by
fast ice
Fast ice (also called ''land-fast ice'', ''landfast ice'', and ''shore-fast ice'') is sea ice that is "fastened" to the coastline, to the sea floor along shoals or to grounded icebergs.Leppäranta, M. 2011. The Drift of Sea Ice. Berlin: Springer- ...
the year round.
The northern arm of the
Sif Glacier, discharging from the
Roosevelt Range
The Roosevelt Range or Roosevelt Mountains ( da, Roosevelt Fjelde) is a mountain range in Northern Greenland. Administratively this range is part of the Northeast Greenland National Park. Its highest peak is the highest point in Peary Land.
Loca ...
to the south, ends in a valley with its mouth in Constable Bay, having formed prominent terminal
moraines
A moraine is any accumulation of unconsolidated debris (regolith and rock), sometimes referred to as glacial till, that occurs in both currently and formerly glaciated regions, and that has been previously carried along by a glacier or ice she ...
.
[Early to middle Holocene valley glaciations on northernmost Greenland The terminal moraine in Constable Bugt](_blank)
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See also
*List of northernmost items
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Cities and settlements
Geography
Nature
Wild animals
Plants
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References
External links
The terminal moraine in Constable BugtGreenland North Coast - Jeff SheaGeese, seabirds and mammals in North and Northeast Greenland
Bays of Greenland
Peary Land
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