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MAEIOX EXPEDITI0:N to DAVIS STRAIT AND BAFFIN BAY 



head of Beistad Fjord and proceedinoj out along the south side of 

 Hayes Sound we pass Sands, Bjorne, Soesterne, Stygge. Svarte, and 

 Fram GLaciers, the Latter of Avhich caps the point opposite Sabine 



The Tidewater Glaciers of Ellesmere Land 



FiGUkK 34. — Ellesmere Land supports two main reservoirs of inland ice from which a 

 total of 24 sizable glaciers discharge along the eastern coast. The number of sizable 

 icebergs calved annually is estimated to be the relatively small number of 150. 



Island. The mountain peaks along this coastal foreland rise high 

 above a dozen or more unnamed smaller valley glaciers giving the sec- 

 tion a very beautiful alpine landscape. MacMillan (1918) (1928) 

 states that he counted and mapped 42 tidewater glaciers between Cape 



