Peabody Bay ( da, Peabody Bugt) is a large bay in northwestern
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 is t ...
. Administratively it is part of
Avannaata municipality.
Geography
Peabody Bay is located on the eastern side of the
Kane Basin
Kane Basin ( da, Kane Bassin; french: Bassin (de) Kane) is an Arctic waterway lying between Greenland and Canada's northernmost island, Ellesmere Island. It links Smith Sound to Kennedy Channel and forms part of Nares Strait. It is approximatel ...
off the western end of the
Humboldt Glacier
Humboldt Glacier ( da, Humboldt Gletscher) is one of the major glaciers in northern Greenland.
The glacier is named after German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt and is the widest tidewater glacier in the Northern Hemisphere.
Geography
The Humb ...
.
Cape Forbes and the
Cass Fjord
Cass Fjord is a fjord in northern Greenland. To the southwest, the fjord opens into the Kane Basin of the Nares Strait.
Geography
The Cass Fjord opens to the SW at the northern end of Peabody Bay, north of Cape Clay. Cass Fjord forms Washington L ...
lie at the northern end of the roughly 80 km wide bay. The
McGary Islands
The McGary Islands is a small coastal island group in Avannaata municipality, off NW Greenland.
The islands are named after James McGary of the Second Grinnell Expedition. They are a breeding ground for the common eider
The common eider (pr ...
lie at the southern end of the bay and the
Bonsall Islands lie between that end and
Dallas Bay to the SW.
Elisha Kane
Elisha Kent Kane (February 3, 1820 – February 16, 1857) was a United States Navy medical officer and Arctic explorer. He served as assistant surgeon during Caleb Cushing's journey to China to negotiate the Treaty of Wangxia and in the Af ...
—whose Arctic venture in search of the lost
Franklin
Franklin may refer to:
People
* Franklin (given name)
* Franklin (surname)
* Franklin (class), a member of a historical English social class
Places Australia
* Franklin, Tasmania, a township
* Division of Franklin, federal electoral d ...
expedition crossed the area in 1854— had named the Kane Basin itself "Peabody Bay," in honor of philanthropist
George Peabody
George Peabody ( ; February 18, 1795 – November 4, 1869) was an American financier and philanthropist. He is widely regarded as the father of modern philanthropy.
Born into a poor family in Massachusetts, Peabody went into business in dry go ...
, the major funder of Kane's expedition.
Currently, however, Peabody Bay is this smaller bay at the eastern side of the basin.
See also
*
Second Grinnell Expedition
References
External links
Explanatory notes to the Geological map of Greenland Bays of Greenland
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