Bowdoin Fjord

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

Bowdoin Fjord
Bowdoin Bay
South Point, Bowdoin Bay. Painting by Frank Wilbert Stokes (1858 - 1955)
Bowdoin Fjord
Location in Greenland
LocationArctic
Coordinates77°35′N 68°31′W
Ocean/sea sourcesInglefield Gulf
Baffin Bay
Basin countriesGreenland
Max. length22 km (14 mi)
Max. width4.5 km (2.8 mi)

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. GoogleEarth
  2. Robert Neff Keely, Gwilym George Davis, In Arctic Seas: the Voyage of the Kite with the Peary Expedition, 2011 p. 373
  3. Paintings by Frank Wilbert Stokes 1896
  4. "Bowdoin Fjord". Mapcarta. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
  5. Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 90
  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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