Constable Bay
{{Short description|Bay in Northeast Greenland National Park, Greenland}}
{{Infobox body of water
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| other_name= Constable Bugt
| image = Roosevelt Range 1903.png
| caption = Section of map published by Robert Peary in 1903 showing his 1900 explorations in far Northern Greenland.
| pushpin_map = Greenland
| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Greenland
| location= Peary Land, Arctic
| coords= {{Coord|83|36|N|32|33|W|region:GL_type:waterbody_source:GNS-enwiki|display=inline, title}}
| rivers=
| oceans= Wandel Sea
| countries= Greenland
| length= {{convert|5|km|abbr=on}}
| width= {{convert|20|km|abbr=on}}
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| frozen= All year round
| settlements= 0
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Constable Bay ({{langx|da|Constable Bugt}}) is a bay in the Wandel Sea, Northern Greenland.{{cite web|url=https://mapcarta.com/19193876|title=Constable Bugt|work=Mapcarta|accessdate=2 July 2019}} Administratively Constable Bay and its surroundings belong to the Northeast Greenland National Park.
Constable Bay is the northernmost bay in the world. The area of the bay is uninhabited.
History
The bay was named in 1900 by Robert Peary after James M. Constable, a prominent member of the Peary Arctic Club in New York.R. E. Peary, Report of RE Peary, CE, USN, on Work Done in the Arctic in 1898-1902, 1903 - JSTOR
Geography
Constable Bay lies in the northernmost shore of Peary Land, in Johannes V. Jensen Land, about {{convert|35|km|abbr=on}} west of Bliss Bay and about {{convert|5|km|mi}} east of Cape Morris Jesup. It is a fairly large indentation, with Cape James Hill rising at its eastern end.Prostar Sailing Directions 2005 Greenland and Iceland Enroute, p. 130 The bay is clogged by fast ice the year round.
The northern arm of the Sif Glacier, discharging from the Roosevelt Range to the south, ends in a valley with its mouth in Constable Bay, having formed prominent terminal moraines.[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277379110002398 Early to middle Holocene valley glaciations on northernmost Greenland The terminal moraine in Constable Bugt]
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|File:Operational Navigation Chart A-5, 3rd edition.jpg and far Northern Greenland.]] |
See also
References
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External links
- [https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-terminal-moraine-in-Constable-Bugt-and-the-associated-reworked-organic-remains-in-the_fig9_284358687 The terminal moraine in Constable Bugt]
- [http://jeffshea.org/greenland-stray-dog-west-expedition/ Greenland North Coast - Jeff Shea]
- [https://www2.dmu.dk/Pub/FR773.pdf Geese, seabirds and mammals in North and Northeast Greenland]
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