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FRIDTJOF NANSEN. 



M.-N. Kl. 



Fig-, lo. The Distribution 

 •of Temperature and Sali- 

 nity at the Sea-Surface, 

 Sept. 1—5, 1912. 

 Scale I : 12,000,000. 



A comparison 

 between the observa- 

 tions at our stations 

 and the corresponding 

 stations ot the Isach- 

 sen Expedition of 1 9 1 o 

 (see above) shows that 

 the waters of the Spits- 

 bergen Atlantic Cur- 

 rent had a much less 

 Atlantic character (/. c. 

 much lower salinities) 



At Stat. 18 the depth of the sea was 247 

 metres, at Stat. 21 242 metres, while at the Bel- 

 gica Stat. 11 A it was 310 metres. The former 

 stations were thus in a somewhat shallower sea, 

 and may have had a little more coastal water than 

 the latter, though they were not nearer to the 

 coast. Their more north-easterly situation may 

 also tend to give them lower salinities and lower 

 temperatures; but this is hardl}' sufficient to ex- 

 plain the striking difference between them and 

 the Belgica station in these respects. It seems as 

 if in this region the water of the Spitsbergen At- 

 lantic Current, had a much more Atlantic character 

 in the summer of 1905, than in the summer of 191 2. 



0?ti. 



900 



57 3 



SI 3'> Jl»)^ 





-ûâ'32 96 'r-uszypi 



— ''V'X;\^äMV "- ^ V' 'Gib') 1 — T~i 17 



100 km. 



Fig. II. Section from the mouth of Horn Sound lo 



Stat. 57, Sept. I, 1912 (see Fig. i). Horizontal Scale 



1:200,000. \'ertical Scale 1:10,000. 



