Bowdoin Fjord

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

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

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. 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.''Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute,'' p. 90

The Bowdoin Glacier discharges from the Greenland Ice Sheet at the head of the Bowdoin Fjord.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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See also

*List of fjords of Greenland

References

External links

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Greenland Institute of Natural Resources - Grønlands Naturinstitut

Fjords of Greenland

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