Bowdoin Glacier

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

Bowdoin Glacier
Bowdoin Gletscher
View of the Bowdoin Glacier
Location within Greenland
TypeTidal outlet glacier
LocationGreenland
Coordinates77°43′N 68°32′W
Width3 km (1.9 mi)
TerminusBowdoin Fjord
Inglefield Fjord
Baffin Bay
StatusRetreating[1]

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.
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See also

References
  1. The recent regimen of the ice cap margin in North Greenland
  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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