Bowdoin Glacier
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| Bowdoin Glacier | |
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| Bowdoin Gletscher | |
.jpeg) View of the Bowdoin Glacier | |
  Location within Greenland | |
| Type | Tidal outlet glacier |
| Location | Greenland |
| Coordinates | 77°43′N 68°32′W / 77.717°N 68.533°W |
| Width | 3 km (1.9 mi) |
| Terminus | Bowdoin Fjord Inglefield Fjord Baffin Bay |
| Status | Retreating[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]
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]
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