Bowdoin Fjord

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Bowdoin Fjord
Bowdoin Bay
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South Point, Bowdoin Bay. Painting by Frank Wilbert Stokes (1858 - 1955)
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Bowdoin Fjord
Location in Greenland
Location Arctic
Coordinates 77°35′N68°31′W / 77.583°N 68.517°W / 77.583; -68.517
Ocean/sea sources Inglefield Gulf
Baffin Bay
Basin  countries Greenland
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]

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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]

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Map of Northwestern Greenland
19th century map of the Inglefield Gulf. Northward over the great ice - a narrative of life and work along the shores and upon the interior ice-cap of northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891-1897, with a description of the little tribe (14779963574).jpg
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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