To the south the fjord opens into the Inglefield Gulf of the Baffin Bay.

[1] This fjord was named by Robert Peary after his alma mater, Bowdoin College.

[2] It was the subject of paintings by Frank Wilbert Stokes at the end of the 19th century.

[3] Bowdoin Fjord runs in a roughly north–south direction with its mouth west of Cape Milne and 15 km west of Cape Ackland, in the northern shore of the middle reaches of the Inglefield Gulf.

There is an Inuit settlement on the western shore of the fjord roughly 3 km north of Cape Tyrconnel.