Bowdoin Glacier

Bowdoin Glacier is an outlet glacier in northwestern Greenland that drains from the Greenland Ice Sheet into the head of Bowdoin Fjord near Prudhoe Land. Flowing generally northeast to southwest, it ends at the bay head amid steep rock and ice. Explorer Robert Peary named it after Bowdoin College, his alma mater, as he looked on a sharp isolated mountain and the great glacier’s "crystal wall" across the head of the bay, also naming Bowdoin Bay. The glacier remains one of the named ice fronts of northwestern Greenland and is significant as a place where land ice from the interior ice sheet moves seaward into fjord waters.

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