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connection with seal fishery. Low lands with grassy plains and 
luxuriant shrubberies of willow and birch trees and many Norse 
ruins are locally to be found also outside the sandstone tracts. 
Thus at Kagsiarsuk in the south eastern corner of the district 
here mentioned, and at Kiagtut farthest north. 
Moreover the last mentioned place is famous as being able 
to show some of the tallest birches in Greenland (3—4 meters 
in height). The summer temperature in these innermost parts 
of the Tunugdliarfik and the Igaliko Fjords is higher than that 
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at the outer coast, and residence in the inner fjords in sum- 
mer would be most enjoyable if the mosquitoes and the violent 
Föhn winds were not there, but these annoyances reach their 
maximum in the Igaliko district. 
In contradistinction to the plains described just now a 
wild highland scenery is to be found in the eastern half of the 
area. The mountains south of the Korok Fjord with the high 
summit of the Igdlerfigsalik (1750 meters) are especially of a 
true Alpine type, and their upper parts have received their 
contour through the activity of local glaciers. The photograph 
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