Constable Bay

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.

Constable Bay
Constable Bugt
Constable Bay
Location in Greenland
LocationPeary Land, Arctic
Coordinates83°36′N 32°33′W
Ocean/sea sourcesWandel Sea
Basin countriesGreenland
Max. length5 km (3.1 mi)
Max. width20 km (12 mi)
FrozenAll year round
Settlements0

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.
Section of map published by Robert Peary in 1903 showing his 1900 explorations in far Northern Greenland.
gollark: No.
gollark: Please wait between 0 and 11.
gollark: I wrote about this before. To save time I'll adapt what I already said.
gollark: It would probably be quite obvious at the time also.
gollark: We should remove all restrictions on performance-enhancing drugs and see exactly how well people can do.

See also

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
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.