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MARION AND GENERAL GREENE EXPEDITIONS 



, At the surface the coldest water in the west Greenland sector 

 in the summer of 1928 was found in two small widely separated 

 areas as bounded by the 4° isotherm on figure 13-one near Cape 

 J^arewell and the other m Davis Strait about 100 miles west of 



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Figure 13.— Temperature at the surface July 30-September 3, 1028. 



Disko Bay. The fact that this water was colder than that adiacent 

 to It IS good evidence that it flowed there in a current. Reference to 

 the surface current map (fig. 8) identifies both of these pools as 

 Arctic m origm— the one transported around Cape Farewell by the 

 l^ast Greenland Current and the other brought directly from the 



