College Fjord is located just off of Alaska's Prince William Sound and
contains many glaciers. From this place one can see eight of Glaciers at once.
College Fjord is a fjord located in the northern sector of Prince William
Sound in the U.S. state of Alaska. The fjord contains five tidewater glaciers
(glaciers that terminate in water), five large valley glaciers, and dozens of
smaller glaciers, most named after renowned East Coast colleges
(women's colleges for the NW side, and men's colleges for the SE side).
College Fjord was discovered in 1899 during the Harriman Expedition, at which
time the glaciers were named. The expedition included a Harvard and an
Amherst professor, and they named many of the glaciers after elite colleges.
According to Bruce Molina, author of Alaska's Glaciers, "They took great
delight in ignoring Princeton."
In 1964 College Fjord was the epicenter of the Good Friday Earthquake,
the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history.
From my log:
Friday September 2, 2011
Awoke to clouds and rain. We have been traveling all night on the sea.
We left Glacier Bay yesterday afternoon and are headed for Collage Ford and
then on to Whittier. Last evening we spent mostly in the room relaxing
after a nice meal at the Grill (Hamburgers and Bratworth). After dinner we
went to the room and watched a movie on TV with Angela Jolie "Salt".
A very good movie with multi plots.
This morning I went out to find coffee for my lady as she was sleeping.
I was met with a light rain on my way to the food court. Not many people
are up at 6:30 A.M. when we will be at sea all day. The weather had been
glorious everyday of the trip. Today even with the rain it is OK as we
are on board all day…
We enjoyed a leisure breakfast and then headed for the gym. Being a good
rule follower I was to exercise everyday as per a description written by my
personnel trainer. Well I must have misread it as I exercised one day each week.
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