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Bowdoin Fjord
Bowdoin Bay
South Point, Bowdoin Bay. Painting by Frank Wilbert Stokes (1858 - 1955)
Bowdoin Fjord is located in Greenland
Bowdoin Fjord
Bowdoin Fjord
Location in Greenland
LocationArctic
Coordinates77°35′N 68°31′W / 77.583°N 68.517°W / 77.583; -68.517
Ocean/sea sourcesInglefield Gulf
Baffin Bay
Basin countriesGreenland
Max. length22 km (14 mi)
Max. width4.5 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]

  1. ^ GoogleEarth
  2. ^ Robert Neff Keely, Gwilym George Davis, In Arctic Seas: the Voyage of the Kite with the Peary Expedition, 2011 p. 373
  3. ^ Paintings by Frank Wilbert Stokes 1896

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