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of (he Labrador Current, witli inshore bends opposite Cape Harri- 

 <ran and White Ba_y, and also offshore salients o[)f)osite Nachvak 

 Fiord and Domino Island, is established on all the surface current 

 maps. The division of the Labrador Current into an inshore band 

 over the continental shelf and an outer band over the continental 

 edge is also portrayed on all the surface current maps but not so 

 noticeably on the map for 1933. 



Attention is also called to the north flowing Atlantic Current 

 which Avas found just outside the continental slope oif the Strait 



Figure 67.- 



-The Labrador Current on tho surface the summer of 1931. 

 expressed in miles per day in axis of current. 



Velocities 



of Belle Isle in both the summers of 1931 and 1934 (figs. 67 and 

 69) but not in 1933. The fact that this had a volume in its margin 

 alone greater than the Labrador Current merits particular emphasis 

 regarding its significance to the circulation of the Labrador Sea. 



The surface current maps show one point quite definitely, viz, 

 that variations in the velocity occur throughout the length of the 

 Labrador Current. Such a behavior of the current is not especially 

 surprising when one appreciates the many vagaries and fluctuating 

 factors to which the surface layers are continually subjected. 



In order to obtain an idea representative of the velocity of the 

 shelf and slope bands of the Labrador Current along its course, the 



