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] This Greenland location article is a stub.