64 MARION EXPEDITION TO DAVIS STEAIT AND BAFFIN BAY 



Fisheries Department are now being prepared for publication, and 

 wlien completed they will materially increase our knowledge of the 

 movement of the pack ice and iceljergs in Spitsbergen and adjacent 

 waters. 



Franz Josef Land (recentl}^ renamed Fridtjof Nansen Land), 

 lying at the extreme end of the North Atlantic atmospheric depres- 

 sion, is wholly glaciated and several of its tidewater glaciers produce 

 icebergs stated to reach a height of 60 feet, but the number of bergs 

 is small. The northern half of Novaya Zemlya is also ice decked, 

 with liigh and wide ice fronts reaching the sea at many points along 



A Tidewater Glacier of Siberia 



Figure 33. — The only iceberg-producing glacier in the eastern Eurasian sector. 

 This glacier is located on the north side of Bennett Island, north of the New 

 Siberian Islands, and discharges a few small icebergs. (Photograph taken from 

 the Russian hydrographical expedition, 1910-1915.) 



the coast, though its bergs are usually small. Nothing is known 

 regarding the iceberg productivity of the west coast of Nicholas II 

 Land. Its east coast, however, is known to have glaciers which pro- 

 duce icebergs, two or three score having been observed along the 

 shore, even southward to Chelyuskin Strait in 1913 by the Russian 

 hydrographical expedition. 



Nicholas II Land, therefore, according to our present limited 

 knowledge, ranks higher than Spitsbergen and Franz Josef Land 

 as regards iceberg productivity. Bennett Island, made famous by 

 the loss of Baron Toll, is glaciated in its southern half where along 

 the coast few glaciers reach the sea. There is one ice tongue some- 

 what larger than the others, which probably accounts for the few 



