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nivik in June will not reach Cape York in the circuit of Melville 

 Bay until well alono' in Auijust. The current embraced by this 

 stretch of coast line appears quite uniform in that it is free from 

 bands and the ice floatino; in its inner margin is carried along at 

 approximately the same velocity as that many miles fartlier out 

 from the coast. 



Tlie inner side of the current, and the distribution of bergs, upon 

 reaching the meridian of Cape York accelerates to 7 miles per day 

 and the map of this particular locality (fig. 91) as noted in the 

 crowding of the isobaths, clearly indicates the tendency of the cur- 

 rents to divide into parallel bands. Off Cape Alexander the map 

 shows the flow fans out to the westward and at the same time the 



Procession of bergs Moving Past Disko isuand 



Figure 94. — One of the main routes t'oUowwl liy tlie icebergs after discliarge from 

 .Tacobshavn Fjord is westerly along tlie soutbern shore of Disko Island. Past the 

 radio masts of the little Arctic village of Godhavn there is always a procession of 

 icebergs drifting into Baffin Bay on the start of a long journey toward the Atlantic. 

 (Official photogrjiph. Marion expedition.) 



curi'ent .slackens to 5 knots per day. corrol)orating ]Mac^Iillan (19^8) 

 (p. 429). One branch winds slowly across toward Lancaster Sound, 

 another flows westward toward the entrance of Jones Sound, while 

 the major portion of the water masses proceeds in the longer, 

 circuitous route of Smith Sound at the rate of 7 miles per day. If 

 bergs remain in this latter set, and there is little doubt but what they 

 do, such ones will be carried northward as far as the seventj^-eightii 

 parallel of latitude before being turned sharply to the southwest 

 and south to follow down the American side. Ob.servations regard- 

 ing the distril)iition of bergs, it is interesting to learn, corroborate 

 the current map. fig. 92, constructed from the (rodfhaab's data, since 



