College Fjord, is a 35 mile long and 3 mile wide fjord located in the northern sector of Prince William Sound in the U.S. state of Alaska. The fjord contains five calving 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). Harvard and Yale Glaciers, in arms at the Fjord's head, and Smith, Bryn Mawr, Vassar, and Wellesley Glaciers on the west wall. 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.
On March 27, 1964 College Fjord was the epic center of the Good Friday Earthquake, the most powerful earthquake in U.S. history. From one place, it is possible to see eight of College Fjords Glaciers at once.
We arrived in the College Fjords from Glacier Bay about 2:30 pm to start our cruising. The end point is the Harvard Glacier, the largest of the the many Glaciers in the College Fjords
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