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Bowdoin Fjord

Coordinates: 77°35′N 68°31′W / 77.583°N 68.517°W / 77.583; -68.517
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Bowdoin Fjord
Bowdoin Bay
South Point, Bowdoin Bay. Painting by Frank Wilbert Stokes (1858 - 1955)
Bowdoin Fjord is located in Greenland
Bowdoin Fjord
Bowdoin Fjord
Location in Greenland
LocationArctic
Coordinates77°35′N 68°31′W / 77.583°N 68.517°W / 77.583; -68.517
Ocean/sea sourcesInglefield Gulf
Baffin Bay
Basin countriesGreenland
Max. length22 km (14 mi)
Max. width4.5 km (2.8 mi)

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

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

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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

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References

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  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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