Infrared-enhanced image of College Fjord. Snow appears white, glaciers appear bright blue, and land surfaces with vegetation on them appear red. Although the two-dimensional image makes it appear that the glaciers along the western side of the fjord simply fill in great ravines, in reality, the glaciers tumble down toward the water over steep hillsides like frozen waterfalls.College Fjord, Alaska, from the air looking East: on north (left) snouts of Vassar, Bryn Mawr, and Smith Glaciers; at east end (mid photo) Harvard; southeast (right edge) Yale; Downer should be south edge of Harvard but it is not easily seen here.
College Fjord is a fjord located in the northern sector of Prince William Sound in the U.S. state of Alaska. The fjord contains five tidewater glaciers (glaciers that terminate in water), five large valley glaciers, and dozens of smaller glaciers, most named after renowned East Coast colleges (women's colleges for the NW side, and men's colleges for the SE side). College Fjord was discovered in 1899 during the Harriman Expedition, at which time the glaciers were named. The expedition included a Harvard and an Amherst professor, and they named many of the glaciers after elite colleges. According to Bruce Molina, author of Alaska's Glaciers, "They took great delight in ignoring Princeton."[1]
CollegeFjord is a fjord located in the northern sector of Prince William Sound in the U.S. state of Alaska. The fjord contains five tidewater glaciers...
The fjords of the United States are mostly found along the glacial regions of the coasts of Alaska and Washington. These fjords — long narrow inlets in...
The glacier has a 1.5-mile (2 km) wide face where it calves into the CollegeFjord. It is 300 ft thick and covers 120,000 acres of Chugach National Forest...
a fault between the Pacific and North American plates ruptured near CollegeFjord in Prince William Sound. The epicenter of the earthquake was 12.4 mi...
Alaska. It trends southeast on the west bank of CollegeFjord, 6.8 mi (10.9 km) southwest of College Point and 65 mi (105 km) east of Anchorage. It was...
west bank of CollegeFjord, 3.7 mi (6.0 km) southwest of College Point and 54 mi (87 km) west of Valdez. It was named for Wellesley College in Wellesley...
Bowdoin Fjord is a fjord in northern Greenland. To the south the fjord opens into the Inglefield Gulf of the Baffin Bay. This fjord was named by Robert...
significant since the mountain rises from tidewater at Unakwik Inlet and CollegeFjord of Prince William Sound in approximately three miles. The mountain's...
Harvard Arm of CollegeFjord, 2 miles (3.2 km) northwest of College Point and 52 miles (84 km) west of Valdez. It was named for Bryn Mawr College in Bryn Mawr...
situated 60 mi (97 km) east of Anchorage, 10 mi (16 km) northwest of CollegeFjord, 3.35 mi (5 km) west of Mount Grace, and 10.9 mi (18 km) southwest of...
Witherspoon and Mount Einstein, and trends southwest to Yale Arm of CollegeFjord, 47 miles (76 km) west of Valdez. It was named for Yale University by...
Niels Johannes Fjord (27 April 1825 – 4 January 1891), often referred to as N. J. Fjord, was a Danish Professor at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural...
Baby Glacier may refer to: Baby Glacier (Alaska) located in CollegeFjord, U.S. state of Alaska Baby Glacier (Canada) located in the Arctic archipelago...
Pakenham and 52 mi (84 km) southwest of Valdez. It was named for Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts by members of the 1899 Harriman Alaska Expedition...
connection across the fjord, is first mentioned in 1736. Hadsund houses multiple educational institutions, including Tech College Mariagerfjord, VUC Hadsund...
Kongsfjorden (Kongs Fjord or Kings Bay) is an inlet on the west coast of Spitsbergen, an island which is part of the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic...
1877, and Donald B. MacMillan, class of 1898. Robert Peary named Bowdoin Fjord and Bowdoin Glacier after his alma mater. Peary led the first successful...
trends southeast to CollegeFjord, 2 mi (3.2 km) west of College Point and 52 mi (84 km) west of Valdez. It was named for Vassar College in Poughkeepsie,...
ASA conducted an effective three-way merger with Marine Harvest N.V. and Fjord Seafood. The group is headquartered in Bergen and is listed on the Oslo...
of Alaska. It trends northwest to its terminus 4.5 mi (7.2 km) east of College Point and 50 mi (80 km) west of Valdez. The name was reported in 1908 by...
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Northern Greenland for the expedition, and guided the ship to Wolstenholme Fjord to investigate rumors of a massacre of Franklin's crew. Although it was...
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