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MARION EXPEDITION TO DAVIS STRAIT AND BAFFIN BAY 



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Great Karajak Glacier Just after a Major Calving 



luuKE 57. — The front wall of Great Karajak G'acier immediately after a great 

 calvins that took place on August 13, 1892. The major calvings, when several 

 hundred yards of the glacier end breaks away, occur on the average of twice a 

 month, during summer, near or at the dates of spring tides. The icebergs floating 

 in the fjord were calved from the right and left of the glacier's front, as can be 

 seen by comparing this view with that taken sometime previously. ( T'hotograph 

 by E. von Drygalski. ) 



Great Karajak Glacier Eight Days after a Major calving 



Figure 58. — The front wall of Great Karajak (ilacier eight days after thr major 

 calving of August 13, 1892. A comparison of Figure 58 with Figure 57 strikingly 

 portrays the rapid rate which the end of Great Karajak Glacier in eight days has 

 pushed outward into the fjord. The west Greenland glaciers, with a recorded rate 

 of 65 feet per day, are probably the fastest moving ice streams in the world. 

 (Photograph by E. von Drygalski.) 



