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FRIDTJOF NANSEN. 



M.-N. Kl. 



Figs. 65 & 66. Charts of the Sea north of Spitsbergen, giving the Mean Density of the 

 water between the Surface and 200 Metres, Fig. 65, and between 20 and 200 Metres, Fig. 66. 

 August 1912. Scale i : 2,500,000. The dotted line is the bathymetrical curve for 200 Metres. 

 The figures give the decimals of the densities (;'. c. 0^,-27). The arrows give the direction 

 and velocity of the currents (i mm. = i cm. per second). 



In the region of Stats. 40 and 41 (12° E Long, see Fig. i) the ice- 

 edge also formed a bight extending comparatively far north, and the ex- 

 planation may likewise be the northward current in the sea to the south 

 (Fig. 65). 



