Peabody Bay ( da, Peabody Bugt) is a large bay in northwestern
Greenland
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. Administratively it is part of
Avannaata
Avannaata (, da, Det Nordlige, lit=The Northern) is a municipality of Greenland created on 1 January 2018 from the bulk of the former Qaasuitsup municipality. It encompasses an area of 522,700 km2 and has 10,726 inhabitants.
Geography
In ...
municipality.
Geography
Peabody Bay is located on the eastern side of the
Kane Basin off the western end of the
Humboldt Glacier
Humboldt Glacier ( da, Humboldt Gletscher) is one of the major glaciers in northern Greenland.
The glacier is named after German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt and is the widest tidewater glacier in the Northern Hemisphere.
Geography
The Humb ...
.
Cape Forbes
A cape is a clothing accessory or a sleeveless outer garment which drapes the wearer's back, arms, and chest, and connects at the neck.
History
Capes were common in medieval Europe, especially when combined with a hood in the chaperon. T ...
and the
Cass Fjord lie at the northern end of the roughly 80 km wide bay. The
McGary Islands
The McGary Islands is a small coastal island group in Avannaata municipality, off NW Greenland.
The islands are named after James McGary of the Second Grinnell Expedition. They are a breeding ground for the common eider.
Geography
The McGary Is ...
lie at the southern end of the bay and the
Bonsall Islands
The Bonsall Islands is a small coastal island cluster in the Avannaata municipality, off northwest Greenland.
The islands are named after Amos Bonsall of the Second Grinnell Expedition.
Geography
The Bonsall Islands are a chain of islands, islet ...
lie between that end and
Dallas Bay
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to the SW.
Elisha Kane —whose Arctic venture in search of the lost
Franklin expedition crossed the area in 1854— had named the Kane Basin itself "Peabody Bay," in honor of philanthropist
George Peabody
George Peabody ( ; February 18, 1795 – November 4, 1869) was an American financier and philanthropist. He is widely regarded as the father of modern philanthropy.
Born into a poor family in Massachusetts, Peabody went into business in dry g ...
, the major funder of Kane's expedition.
Currently, however, Peabody Bay is this smaller bay at the eastern side of the basin.
See also
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Second Grinnell Expedition
References
External links
Explanatory notes to the Geological map of Greenland Bays of Greenland
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