SCIENTIFIC RESULTS 



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The Glaciers, Cape Alexander to Cape York 



Tlie o-laciers situated between Cape Alexander and Cape York 

 are so far north that the most of them are blocked by sea ice but 



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THE TIDEWATER GLACIERS FROM CAPE ALEXANDER TO CAPE YORK 



Figure 40 — There is a total of 54 tidewater glaciers In this section of which only 25 

 are known as occasional icebers producers. Most of the glaciers are sluggish and 

 small Thp important iceberg-discharging glaciers numbering only Ave are : Morns 

 Jessup. Bowdoin, Melville-Tracy-Farquar, Moltke, and Pitugflk. The annual produc- 

 tion is estimated to be 300 icebergs. 



ill the vicinity of Wolstenholme Sound tliis is not the case except dur- 

 in<r the winter months. A grand total of 101 i^daciers, large and 

 snTall, extend out from the ice cap along ihis highly irregular coast 



