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APPENDIX V 



When the Fram left Buenos Aires in June, 1911, the expedition 

 went eastward through the Brazil Current. The first station 

 was taken in lat. 36° 13' S. and long. 43° 15' W.; this was on 

 June 17, Her course was then north-east or east until Station 32 

 in lat. 20° 30' S. and long. 8° 10' E.; this station lay in the 

 Benguela Current, about 300 miles from the coast of Africa, and it 

 was taken on July 22. From there she went in a gentle curve 



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Fig. 5. — The "Fram's" Stations in the Soitth Atlantic 

 (June- August, 1911). 



past St. Helena and Trinidad back to America. The last station 

 (No. 60) was taken on August 19 in the Brazil Current in 

 lat. 24° 39' S. and about long. 40° W.; this station lay about 

 200 miles south-east of Rio de Janeiro. 



There was an average distance of 100 nautical miles between 

 one station and the next. At nearly all the stations investigations 

 were made at the following depths: surface, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100, 150, 



