Constable Bay

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Constable Bay
Constable Bugt
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Section of map published by Robert Peary in 1903 showing his 1900 explorations in far Northern Greenland.
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Constable Bay
Location in Greenland
Location Peary Land, Arctic
Coordinates 83°36′N32°33′W / 83.600°N 32.550°W / 83.600; -32.550
Ocean/sea sources Wandel Sea
Basin  countries Greenland
Max. length5 km (3.1 mi)
Max. width20 km (12 mi)
FrozenAll year round
Settlements0

Constable Bay (Danish : Constable Bugt) is a bay in the Wandel Sea, Northern Greenland. [1] Administratively Constable Bay and its surroundings belong to the Northeast Greenland National Park.

Contents

Constable Bay is the northernmost bay in the world. The area of the bay is uninhabited.

History

The bay was named in 1900 by Robert Peary after James M. Constable, a prominent member of the Peary Arctic Club in New York. [2]

Geography

Constable Bay lies in the northernmost shore of Peary Land, in Johannes V. Jensen Land, about 35 km (22 mi) west of Bliss Bay and about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) east of Cape Morris Jesup. It is a fairly large indentation, with Cape James Hill rising at its eastern end. [3] The bay is clogged by fast ice the year round.

The northern arm of the Sif Glacier, discharging from the Roosevelt Range to the south, ends in a valley with its mouth in Constable Bay, having formed prominent terminal moraines. [4]

Map of Northern Ellesmere Island and far Northern Greenland. Operational Navigation Chart A-5, 3rd edition.jpg
Map of Northern Ellesmere Island and far Northern Greenland.

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References

  1. ↑ "Constable Bugt". Mapcarta. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
  2. ↑ R. E. Peary, Report of RE Peary, CE, USN, on Work Done in the Arctic in 1898-1902, 1903 - JSTOR
  3. ↑ Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 130
  4. ↑ Early to middle Holocene valley glaciations on northernmost Greenland The terminal moraine in Constable Bugt


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