Bowdoin Glacier

Bowdoin Glacier
Bowdoin Gletscher
View of the Bowdoin Glacier
Location within Greenland
Type	Tidal outlet glacier
Location	Greenland
Coordinates	77°43′N68°32′W / 77.717°N 68.533°W / 77.717; -68.533
Width	3 km (1.9 mi)
Terminus	Bowdoin Fjord Inglefield Fjord Baffin Bay
Status	Retreating [1]

Bowdoin Glacier (Danish : Bowdoin Gletscher or Bowdoin Brae), is a glacier in northwestern Greenland. ^[2] Administratively it belongs to the Avannaata municipality.

Like the fjord further south, this glacier was named by Robert Peary after Bowdoin College. He described the glacier as follows:

Beyond that, an isolated mountain of striking boldness and sharpness of outline jutted into the air apparently some two thousand feet, and then, from its base, the crystal wall of a great glacier stretched clear across the opposite side of the bay head. This glacier I named, in honour of my Alma Mater, Bowdoin Glacier, and the bay I called Bowdoin Bay. ^[3]

Geography

The Bowdoin Glacier discharges at the head of the Bowdoin Fjord from the Greenland Ice Sheet to the northeast of Prudhoe Land. ^{[4] [1]}

The glacier flows roughly from NE to SW. ^[5]

Map of Northwestern Greenland

19th century map of the Inglefield Gulf.

See also

• List of glaciers in Greenland

References

1. "The recent regimen of the ice cap margin in North Greenland" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-06-25. Retrieved 2019-04-18.
2. "Bowdoin Gletscher". Mapcarta. Retrieved 3 April 2019.
3. Robert E. Peary, 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 pp. 393--394
4. Ice front and flow speed variations of marine-terminating outlet glaciers along the coast of Prudhoe Land, northwestern Greenland
5. Google Earth

External links

• Media related to Bowdoin Glacier at Wikimedia Commons
• Identifying Spatial Variability in Greenland's Outlet Glacier Response to Ocean Heat