NORTH POLE OF THE WINDS 



arctic glacial anticyclone located above the Ant- 

 arctic Continent. 



The winds of these two glacial anticyclones do 

 not, however, blow directly down the slopes of the 

 ice, because the rotation of the earth upon its axis 

 brings about a deviation of wind directions such 

 that in the Northern Hemisphere the deviation of 

 downwardly directed currents is in the direction 



in which the hands of a clock move. In the South- 

 ern Hemisphere the deviation is exactly the re- 

 verse. Because of this deviation the winds which 

 sweep down the western slope of the Greenland 

 ice-cap reach the margins coming from the south- 

 east, while those descending the eastern slopes 

 come from the northwest. 



Dr. de Quervain and Captain Koch while on 

 their journeys across Greenland each passed 

 through an interior region of no winds and of very 

 intense cold, where dry and loose mealy snow lay 

 beneath their feet. Before penetrating this cold 

 central windless region, and again after emerging 



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