NORTH POLE OF THE WINDS 



the map and, turning northward, follow closely 

 the border of the ice-cap until with fuel exhausted 

 he was forced down only 70 miles from Mount 

 Evans. 



Two great landmarks of the Greenland south- 

 west coast are the white arms of ice which push out 

 westward — the Frederiksliaah ishlink, which comes 

 down to the sea in latitude 62^ °N, and the Knud 

 Rasmussen ice-arm in latitude 66 °N. high upon a 

 plateau. These two arms of ice are the only ones 

 which come near the sea and they are nearly 250 

 miles apart. Almost exactly half way between 

 them is the great radiating fan of fjords surround- 

 ing the southern capital, Godthaab, and these 

 fjords extend far inland to the ice-cap itself. Both 

 because of their size and their peculiar plan they 

 have no parallel for hundreds of miles in either 

 direction and so can easily be identified from the 

 air. 



Flying at an elevation of 5,000 feet so as to 

 clear the highest peaks of the coastland, the avi- 

 ator as he comes over the margin of the ice-cap 

 will encounter a southeast wind, and turning to 

 the north will fly with the tail wind until he ar- 

 rives at Mount Evans and makes a landing off 

 Camp Lloyd on the margin of the fjord. 



The Greenland ice-cap is without mountains ex- 



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