Bowdoin Fjord
Bowdoin Bay
South Point, Bowdoin Bay. Painting by Frank Wilbert Stokes (1858 - 1955)
Bowdoin Fjord Location in Greenland
Location	Arctic
Coordinates	77°35′N 68°31′W / 77.583°N 68.517°W / 77.583; -68.517
Ocean/sea sources	Inglefield Gulf Baffin Bay
Basin countries	Greenland
Max. length	22 km (14 mi)
Max. width	4.5 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

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]