NUNATAK GLACIER 



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a bold rock shore, 

 but at the north it 

 terminated among 

 gravels, and a nar- 

 row remnant of 

 ice, half buried, 

 extended several 

 hundred yards 

 west of the main 

 mass. Near and 

 east of the position 

 of the glacier front 

 is a high rock ter- 

 race against the 

 south wall of the 

 valley, and this 

 culminates at the 

 east in a bold 

 knob, thoroughly 

 smoothed and 



FIG. 32. CASCADING GLACIER IN NUNATAK FIORD. 



rOUnded by recent The visible portion of the glacier has no valley, but descends 



i . ,. j ,1 wall of valley of Nunatak Glacier. Photographed June 21, 1899. 



hollow separating this knob from the south wall lay a 

 mass of ice of uncertain relations (fig. 33). It was seen 



only from the 

 west, and was 

 supposed to 

 be a tongue or 

 distributary 

 arm of Nun- 

 atak Glacier. 

 The fact that 

 it lay several 

 hundred feet 



FIG. 33. SOUTH TONGUE OF NUNATAK GLACIER IN 1899, higher than 



