ipio.] 



INLAND-ICE OF THE ARCTIC REGIONS. 



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beyond them to the eastward until the vicinity of Baffin Bay has 

 been reached. 



On the border of the Atlantic low pressure area are found 

 Greenland, Iceland, Spitzbergen, Norway, Franz Josef Land and 

 Nova Zembla, each with its upland areas and its existing glaciation. 

 In Norway, Iceland, and Franz Josef Land we find ice-caps; in 

 Spitzbergen, Nova Zembla, Baffin Land, Grinnell Land and Ells- 

 mere Land, the mantle of snow and ice is best described bv the 



Fig. I. Map showing the areas of fixed low barometric pressure in the 

 northern hemisphere (after Buchan). The areas of heavy glaciation have 

 been added. 



name inland-ice, while upon the continent of Greenland the inland- 

 ice has continental dimensions and forms one of the two con- 

 tinental glaciers that still exist. 



Of all the northern ice sheets, ivith the exception of the Archi- 

 pelago of Frana Josef Land, the rule holds that they are smaller 

 than the land masses upon zvhich they rest, and this in part ex- 

 presses the difference between the northern and southern types of 

 inland-ice. 



