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	PBS - Harriman: Souvenir Album College Fjord
		College Fjord, which branches off of Prince William Sound, plunges into the heart of the Chugach Mountains.
		Glaciers on the northwest side of College Fjord are generally named after 19th century "women's colleges." Vassar Glacier is located north of Wellesley Glacier and south of Bryn Mawr Glacier.
		Dominating the terminus of College Fjord is Harvard Glacier, a tidewater glacier noted for its very active calving.
	www.pbs.org /harriman/explog/080101_photos.html (571 words)

	Alaskan Cruisetour Photo Gallery - Day 7 - College Fjord
		College Fjord is frequently subject to poor weather with rain and fog common.
		We had the privilege of entering the short fjord on a gloriously clear day, and were able to see all of its major glaciers with one sweep of the eyes.
		Entering the fjord, it was extremely cold at the forward portion of the Lido Deck, but a few of us hardier souls got bundled up, and huddled for warmth in the few places where the wind didn't bite too badly.
	www.well.com /~wolfy/alaska/Day07c.html (243 words)

	ASTER Image Gallery: College Fjord, AK
		College Fjord is located in Prince Williams Sound, east of Seward Alaska.
		In this 20 by 24 km (12 by 15 miles) sub-scene, acquired June 24, 2000, the northern end of the fjord is depicted in visible and near infrared bands.
		At the head of the fjord Harvard Glacier (left) is one of the few advancing glaciers in the area, dark streaks on the glacier are medial moraines: rock and dirt that indicate the incorporated margins of merging glaciers.
	asterweb.jpl.nasa.gov /gallery/gallery.htm?name=College (160 words)

	P&O Cruises Australia - College Fjord - Cruise Alaska
		College Fjord is tucked into the northwest corner of Prince Williams Sound.
		College Fjord boasts 14 glaciers, many named after Ivy League Colleges upon their 1899 discovery by the Harriman Expedition.
		College Fjord is home to 16 glaciers, many of which were named for the Ivy League colleges that sponsored the Harriman Expedition in 1899.
	www.pocruises.com.au /html/college-fjord.cfm (145 words)

	More ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This spectacular fjord with its sixteen sparkling glaciers, fruit of glacial retreat, is 20 miles of breathtaking landscape enclosed by steep walls.
		You’ll be awed by the spectacle at this magnificent fjord.
		You’ll be awed by the magnificent wild beauty and the breathtaking scenery of the Misty Fjords National Monument, an unspoiled wilderness area teeming with magnificent glaciers, towering mountains, lush green forests, lakes and thundering waterfalls.
	www.alaskacruisecenter.com /ports/more_minig.htm (280 words)

	SailNet Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		As we cruised up College Fjord we gazed at 16 of the glaciers, some vast, some smaller, all of which poured down the rocky mountains, surrounded by the debris and scree that was picked up or ground away centuries before.
		College Fjord was christened by the American railway magnate Edward H. Harriman in 1899 and the glaciers were given names of the various universities and colleges that his accompanying scientists attended, including the spectacular Harvard Fjord at its head.
		Situated at the head of Columbia Bay—a fjord with depths over 2,000 feet—the glacier covers an amazing 440 square miles, is 40 miles long with a face three miles wide and 260 feet high.
	www.sailnet.com /collections/articles/index.cfm?articleid=copela007 (1658 words)

	Alaska
		Not to have seen College Fjord is not to have lived.
		College Fjord's natural splendour overwhelms all who see it.
		As our ship, the Dawn Princess, sailed very slowly into the fjord, I saw glaciers to the left, to the front, and to the right.
	users.tpg.com.au /adsligol/alaska/college.htm (121 words)

	Photographs of the Glaciers in College Fjord, Alaska (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Harbor in Seward, AK This photograph shows the length of College Fjord with Harvard Glacier at the end.
		College Fjord is north of Valdez, and not far from Seward.
		The photos of the glaciers in College Fjord and Glacier Bay were taken from the balcony of our room on the Sun Princess.
	www.op.net /~rkane/Alaska/colfj.htm (161 words)

	VIA Online: Touring Alaska's Glaciers
		We've been cavalier about the great architects of our planet, the mighty glaciers that carved valleys and fjords from mountains, chiseled coastlines, and pulverized everything in their paths.
		Hubbard is known as "the Galloping Glacier" because it's advancing at the speed of a foot a day, which may not qualify it for the Indy 500, but as glaciers go, it's a Ferrari.
		College Fjord could be called Glacier Alley for its 16 tidewater giants, each one named for a school.
	www.viamagazine.com /top_stories/articles/alaska_cruise02.asp (1227 words)

	Cruising College Fjord and Glacier Bay
		Here's some glacier trivia: The Harriman Expedition that discovered College Fjord in 1899 was funded by Ivy League colleges.
		All of the glaciers in College Fjord were named for the various schools in their honor.
		As you travel into the Fjord, the glaciers on the left are named for women's colleges and those on the right are named for men's colleges.
	www.preyerplanning.com /alaska/glaciers.htm (252 words)

	Zegrahm Expeditions - Reports From The Field: The 1899 Harriman Expedition Retraced: Prince Rupert to Homer
		The exploration of Harriman and College Fjords was, according to Burroughs and Muir, the high point to the original Harriman Expedition.
		They named the main glaciers in College Fjord after the Seven Sisters women's colleges, a number of men's colleges, and a couple of Harvard presidents and finishing schools.
		Back in College Fjord, we got a good long look at a grazing fl bear and did another Zodiac excursion, in amongst the ice at the face of Harvard Glacier, where we saw a great deal of thunderous calving action (rocking us in the waves) as well as many seals and Arctic terns.
	www.zeco.com /travel-reports/dayreports.asp?id=30&itid=293 (333 words)

	College Fjord
		At least five glaciers are observed at the foot of College Fjord.
		These smaller glaciers on the right of the fjord were sedate and at rest during our visit.
		As we left the College Fjord Glaciers their ice flows followed us to bid us farewell.
	www.coping.org /travels/alaska/college/content.htm (385 words)

	Ice-Floe: Contributors A - Z (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Educated at St. Olaf College, Harvard University, and the University of Iowa, he is a poet, editor, and translator of exceptional influence and esteem.
		She has a degree in Outdoor Education from Colorado Mountain College and is working on a BFA in sculpture at the University of Alaska Anchorage.
		She received her MFA in writing from Bennington College and was a finalist for the Modern Poetry Association's 2002 Ruth Lily Fellowship.
	www.icefloepress.org /contriba-z.shtml (14108 words)

	Amazing College Fjord! \| Alaska \| Sea Kayaking
		College Fjord is our ultimate glacier and peaks trips.
		The fjord is ringed by jagged mountains rising from sea level to over 10,000 feet.
		Our camp is spread among the jumble of house sized boulders left by th eretreat of the ice with an amazing view of College Fjord.
	www.infohub.com /TRAVEL/SIT/sit_pages/3706.html (687 words)

	COLLEGE FJORD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		College Fjord got it's name because all of the glaciers are named after different colleges.
		Since there was no Penn State glacier, I was not very impressed.
		College Fjord was the last scheduled stop on our tour.
	www.users.fast.net /~elwood/honeymoon/collegefjord.htm (74 words)

	Day 2: College Fjord (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The remaining glaciers on the southeast side of the bay are named after American men's colleges.
		This website has a lot more information about the fjord, including a picture from space.
		After leaving the fjord after a couple of hours, we returned to the Gulf of Alaska, and the open ocean.
	www3.sympatico.ca /pcurran/day2.htm (370 words)

	Cruise Critic Destinations: College Fjord
		College Fjord -- a highlight of Gulf of Alaska cruises -- stretches for twenty miles and boasts sixteen breathtaking glaciers.
		This hidden jewel is unique in that the forests coexist with the glaciers there giving ample opportunity to spot a variety of wildlife wandering the shores while viewing the glaciers.
		College Fjord, discovered in the late 1800s, and named for Ivy League colleges that had sponsored that first expedition.
	www.cruisecritic.com /ports/article.cfm?ID=49 (208 words)

	Alaska- Matt and Lisa's Honeymoon- June 2003 (College Fjord, AK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		College Fjord is located in Prince William Sound.
		The glaciers of College Fjord are named after Eastern schools that helped fund the Harriman Expedition, which discovered this area.
		Harvard Glacier is at the head of College Fjord and the face
	www.mattwalling.com /alaska-collegefjord.htm (151 words)

	Berglet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The stark coldness of the scene was accented visually under foggy and overcast skies, the water tinged with fine silt.
		As the ice melts, this material is freed, falling to the bottom of the fjord.
		In water, it combines with finer silt to slowly fill the fjord with sediment, such that over many millennia, the arm of the sea will become a delta valley bracketed by mountains.
	www.stormeyes.org /tornado/SkyPix/berglet.htm (138 words)

	Carnival Cruise Lines - Cruise College Fjord
		College Fjord was discovered during an 1899 expedition funded by Ivy League colleges.
		As a result, all of the glaciers were named after the various schools in their honor.
		Located in the northwest corner of Prince William Sound, College Fjord is surrounded by over a dozen glaciers, the largest of which is called Harvard Galcier.
	www.carnival.com /Port_Of_Call.aspx?portCode=CLF&itinCode=GS7&embkCode=ANC&durDays=7 (90 words)

	alaska6 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Tucked into the northwest corner of Prince William Sound, College Fjord, surrounded by over a dozen glaciers is easily the equal of the much more famous Glacier Bay.
		For this reason, each glacier was given the name of an ivy league college.
		The first sound is like tremendous thunder, then you hear an incredible crack; and a second later you see and hear the ice break off and splash into the sea.
	home.carolina.rr.com /theaverys/alaska6.html (167 words)

	Princess Cruises : Ports of Call : College Fjord, Alaska (Scenic Cruising)
		Some of the best glacier viewing in the state can be seen tucked into the northwest corner of Prince William Sound at College Fjord.
		Winding down from mountains and through valleys and fjords, these massive rivers of ice are often on the move, periodically dropping their bounty into the sea.
		There are 16 glaciers named after Ivy League colleges by the Harriman Expedition that discovered them in 1899.
	www.princess.com /ports/CF1_A.html (182 words)

	College Fjord Cruise Port information on AlaskaCruises.com
		It was the Harriman Expedition party who named College Fjord as well as the glaciers that line it.
		On the northwest side of the fjord, the glaciers were named after the women's colleges, such as Smith, Bryn Mawr, Vassar, Wellesley, Barnard, and Holyoke.
		This giant of College fjord is slowly advancing, calving literally tons of ice into the fjord each day.
	www.alaskacruises.com /alaska_ports.asp?pageID=251 (358 words)

	Prince William Sound Glaciers
		Watching and hearing these glaciers calve ice into the sea with a tremendous roar is the highlight of many folks' visit to the Sound.
		Ten of the Sound's 17 tidewater glaciers are concentrated in College and Harriman Fjords.
		Harvard Glacier, at the head of College Fjord's Harvard Arm, is one of a few of Prince William Sound's glaciers that are advancing.
	www.soundecoadventure.com /glacier.html (322 words)

	Cruise Ship Alaska Itineraries
		Carnival Spirit: between Vancouver and Whittier, seven nights, May 18 to August 31, 2005, and May 17 to August 30, 2006, to Prince William Sound, College Fjord, Lynn Canal, Sitka, Juneau, Skagway, Ketchikan and the Inside Passage.
		Veendam: between Vancouver and Seward, seven nights, May 15 to September 18, 2005, calling at Ketchikan, Juneau, Skagway, Glacier Bay and College Fjord (northbound) or College Fjord, Glacier Bay, Sitka, Juneau, Ketchikan (southbound).
		Dawn Princess: between Vancouver and Whittier, Mondays, May 16 to September 12, 2005 calling at Skagway, Juneau and Ketchikan, plus cruising College Fjord, the Inside Passage and Glacier Bay National Park.
	www.cruisemates.com /articles/itineraries/alaska.cfm (3430 words)

	College Fjord Cruise Port information on CruiseCheap.com
		The dozen or so glaciers lining this fjord were named for the Ivy League schools that members of the party attended.
		On the northwest side of the fjord, the glaciers were named after the women's colleges, such as Smith, Bryn Mawr, Vassar, Wellesley, Barnard, and Holyoke.
		This giant of College fjord is slowly advancing, calving literally tons of ice into the fjord each day.
	www.cruisecheap.com /alaska_cruises.asp?pageID=251 (451 words)

	Just Pack Travel Adventures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The beauty of this top-rated itinerary is that it offers a second and equally remarkable glacier-viewing experience in College Fjord.
		Rarely visited by other cruise lines, college Fjord offers as many as six different glaciers in one glance and features up to 16 glaciers in one glorious, unforgettable day.
		Disembark AM Deep within Prince William Sound lies College Fjord, home to 16 glaciers named for the Ivy League colloeges that sponsored the Harriman Expedition in 1899.
	www.whiterocktravel.com /festivalofwales.htm (386 words)

	Alaska 2001 V K (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		There are twenty six glaciers in this fjord and each one is named after a university or college in the United States.
		One of the College Fjord Glaciers, I don't remember which one it is.
		Three College Fjord Glaciers at the inner most part of the fjord.
	webpages.charter.net /cih/travel/alaska2001/html/alaska2001_4.html (133 words)

	Alaska Cruises - Cruise Tour Planners - best time to cruise Alaska
		College Fjord - a glacier lover's paradise beckons in this pristine pocket of Prince William Sound.
		Deep within the Sound lies the beautiful College Fjord, home of 16 glaciers named for the Ivy League colleges that sponsored the Harriman Expedition in 1899.
		Carved by glaciers and blanketed with majestic hemlock and spruce, Alaska's Inside Passage is a region of pristine water, snow capped mountains, deep fjords and forested islands.
	www.cruisetourplanners.com /alaska.htm (4777 words)

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