Bowdoin Glacier Explained

Bowdoin Glacier
Other Name:	Bowdoin Gletscher
Type:	Tidal outlet glacier
Location:	Greenland
Map:	Greenland
Coordinates:	77.7167°N -100°W
Mark:	Blue_pog.svg
Width:	3km (02miles)
Terminus:	Bowdoin Fjord Inglefield Fjord Baffin Bay
Status:	Retreating

Bowdoin Glacier (Danish: Bowdoin Gletscher or Bowdoin Brae), is a glacier in northwestern Greenland.^[1] 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:

Geography

The Bowdoin Glacier discharges at the head of the Bowdoin Fjord from the Greenland Ice Sheet to the northeast of Prudhoe Land.^{[2] [3]}

The glacier flows roughly from NE to SW.^[4]

See also

• List of glaciers in Greenland

External links

• • Identifying Spatial Variability in Greenland's Outlet Glacier Response to Ocean Heat

Notes and References

1. Web site: Bowdoin Gletscher. Mapcarta. 3 April 2019.
2. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/a-Cumulative-frontal-displacement-red-and-annual-ice-speed-of-Heilprin-b-Tracy_fig6_323818961 Ice front and flow speed variations of marine-terminating outlet glaciers along the coast of Prudhoe Land, northwestern Greenland
3. Web site: The recent regimen of the ice cap margin in North Greenland . 2019-04-18 . 2021-06-25 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210625040947/http://hydrologie.org/redbooks/a058/05813.pdf . dead .
4. [Google Earth]