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stations in this section the layer between the Antarctic surface water and the sea- 

 bottom consists of warm deep water, there being no Antarctic bottom water present. 



As in February a station, St. WS 492, was taken between Snow Island and Smith 

 Island. At this station the water below 200 m. consisted of warm deep water. It is 



STATION 



SMITH I 



WS49I 



W5490 



W5489 



WS488 



250m- 



500^ 



3400%, 



33-90*. 



BRABANT 



STATION 



SMITH 



Fig. 36. Vertical section of salinity: Brabant Island to Smith Island, November 1929. 



WS49I W5490 W5489 WS488 



BRABANT I. 



250, 



500, 



Fig- 37- Vertical section of temperature: Brabant Island to Smith Island, November 1929. 



STATION 



SMITH I. 



WS49I 



WS490 



W5489 WS489 



2730 BRABANT I. 



250m 



500 



Fig- 38- Vertical section of density (a t ): Brabant Island to Trinity Island, November 1929. 



probable that most of the warm deep water which exists in the Bransfield Strait enters 

 the strait in the channel 600-700 m. deep between Snow and Smith Islands and flows 

 south of Deception Island, possibly through a gap in the supposed ridge between 



