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Bowdoin Glacier
Bowdoin Gletscher
View of the Bowdoin Glacier
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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]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference hy was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  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

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