Bowdoin Glacier
Bowdoin Gletscher
View of the Bowdoin Glacier
Map showing the location of Bowdoin Glacier
Map showing the location of Bowdoin Glacier
Location within Greenland
TypeTidal outlet glacier
LocationGreenland
Coordinates77°43′N 68°32′W / 77.717°N 68.533°W / 77.717; -68.533
Width3 km (1.9 mi)
TerminusBowdoin Fjord
Inglefield Fjord
Baffin Bay
StatusRetreating[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

References

  1. ^ a b "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

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