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HOBBS— CHARACTERISTICS OF THE 



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which this name has been appHed, covers an area of 8,500 square 

 kilometers. Ice carapaces which are better described as inland-ice, 

 since they cover considerable proportions of the interiors of the land 

 areas upon which they rest, occur to the northward of Europe in 

 Nova Zembla and Spitzbergen, and in the lands to the west of 

 Baffin's Bay, known as Baffin, Ellesmere, and Grinnell lands. 



Fig. 9. Map of Spitzbergen, showing the supposed glaciated areas (from 

 Andree's " Handatlas ") . 



Nova Zembla is a long, narrow island, stretching between 70° 

 and 84° of north latitude (see Fig. 8). It is in reality two islands 

 separated by a narrow strait near the latitude of 76°. The north- 

 ern island, which to the north is a plateau attaining an altitude of 

 1,800 feet, appears to be in large part covered by inland-ice, though 

 it has been as yet but little explored. 



