College Fjord, Alaska


        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.

 
Pictures as we Toured College Fjord by ship


Videos

Tide water glacier Different Perspective (Windy) Harvard Glacier and the shoreline
Harvard Glacier Multiple Tide Water Glaciers Water Falls at College Fjord



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