86 MARIOX EXPEDITION TO DAVIS STRAIT AND BAFFIN BAY 



Glaciers discharge.'^ Umanak Fjord, the southeasterly fork, re- 

 ceives the combined outputs of Ingnerit, Itivdliarsuk, Sermilik, and 

 Little and Great Karajak. 



UMlAM/:XKO 

 __gJNK 



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N&NFglT 

 rriVDUABSUK 



KAPA.TAK 

 GREAT KA;^A.TAK 



Torsuka-tak ; 

 \ ■, 

 EKIP-5ERMIA 



if 

 y/'i!'\ , 



72 



71 



7o 



69 



55 54 53 52 51 5o 49 



The Tidewater Glaciers of Northeast Bay and Disko Bay 



FiGUEE 44. — There is a total of over 100 glaciers in tliis section of the west coast of 

 Greenland, of which 12 are important iceberg producers. These 12 are estimated 

 to discharge annually 5,400 icebergs, or more than any other coast line of similar 

 extent in the Northern tlemisphere. 



Disko Bay receives two very active ice streams, Torsukatak and 

 Jacobshavn, the latter (according to Helland 1876, p. 108) producing 



^* Koch states in a letter that in the summer of 1928 he met more icebergs off TJmia- 

 mako Glacier at the mouth of Karrat Fjoi'd than at any other place in west Greenland 

 so he believes this is, at present, the most productive point on the west coast. 



