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and biological observations over a large part of the North 

 Atlantic. As previously stated, one of the principal objects 

 of the expedition was to carry out researches in the North 

 Atlantic likely to increase our knowledge of the marine area 

 explored by the " Michael Sars " during the past few years, 

 namely, the Norwegian Sea lying between Norway, Greenland, 

 Iceland, and the North Sea. It was important, therefore, to 



Fig. 104.- 



Michael Sars" Stations from Glasgow to Bergen. 



examine the adjoining portion of the Atlantic and to investigate 

 the inflow of the Atlantic water. 



After leaving the vicinity of the Newfoundland Bank, the 

 Gulf Stream bends sharply eastwards and forms the surface 

 layer examined by us between Stations 81 and 92 (see Fig. 99). 

 Off the edge of the Irish coast bank a portion turns northwards 

 towards the Norwegian Sea. The sea-bottom is here very 

 complicated, for the deep basins of the Atlantic and Norwegian 

 Sea are separated by a submarine ridge (see Fig. 104). To the 

 north-west of Ireland the wide Atlantic plain narrows to a kind 



