Constable Bay () is a bay in the Wandel Sea, Northern Greenland. 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 west of Bliss Bay and about 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.Early to middle Holocene valley glaciations on northernmost Greenland The terminal moraine in Constable Bugt
See also List of northernmost items
References
External links The terminal moraine in Constable Bugt Greenland North Coast - Jeff Shea Geese, seabirds and mammals in North and Northeast Greenland