I9I2. No. 12. 



THE SEA WEST OF SPITSBERGEN. 



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Fig. 41. The Ice Fjord. 



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30, ât 240 and 200 metres, the temperatures were 2.95 ^ and 2.87^' C. and 

 the salinities 34.97 and 34.95 "^ 00 on July 23rd and 22nd, 1910. At Stat. 

 13 and 14, near the coast to the south, the temperatures and salinities ât 

 150 metres were somewhat lower (2.5° C. and 2.69O C, and 3493 ^00); 

 and ât 190 and 200 metres they were still lower. But the temperatures 

 and the salinities were on the whole lower at these stations than at Stats. 

 30 and 31 to the north, probably because the influence of the cold Spits- 

 bergen Polar Current was more appreciable in the south. To judge 

 from the series of observations at Stat. 41, the sill, if there is one, cannot 

 be very high, hardly higher than 300 or perhaps 250 metres; for other- 

 wise the temperatures and salinities of the deep strata in our series 

 would have been more uniform. 



The observations at Stat. 41 (of Sept. 6, 1910) at the mouth of the Ice 

 Fjord demonstrate a minimum of temperature of 0.52^ C. in 100 metres, 

 with a salinity of 34.50 "/oo (cf. PI. IV, Sect. IV a). 



Similar minima were observed by Dr. Johan Hjort during his visit to 

 the Ice Fjord in the Michael Sars in July, 1901. 



The following vertical series of observations were then taken : 



