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MARION EXPEDITION TO DAVIS STEAIT AND BAFFIN BA.Y 



Hundreds of bergs jammed in the Mouth of jacobshavn Fjord 



Figure 52. — The patrol boat Marion cruisiiia; iu among the icebergs that clogged the 

 mouth of Jacobshavn Fjord August 8, 1928. The bergs were packed so tightly 

 together that it was impossible to penetrate much beyond the outermost < ncs. 

 (Official photograph, Marion expedition.) 



Train of Icebergs Moving out of Jacobshavn Fjord 



Figure 53. — Looking southward across the 8-mile-wide Jacobshavn Fjord about 2 

 miles above its mouth. Jacobshavn Fjord empties into Disko Bay, latitude 69° 10' 

 N., longitude 50° 19' W.. on the west coast of Greenland. This train of icebergs 

 packed closely end to end and side to side is continually passing down the fjord 

 and out to sea. (Official photograph, Marion expedition.) 



